Cytherean

American  

[sith-uh-ree-uhn] / ˌsɪθ əˈri ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Cytherea.

2. Astronomy. of or relating to the planet Venus.

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Etymology

Origin of Cytherean

< Latin Cytherē(a) (< Greek Kythéreia Cytherea ( def. ) ) + -an

Example Sentences

Pallas Athene taught them by word of mouth, and the Cytherean was their rosy, warm, unfailing friend.

From Hills and the Sea by Belloc, Hilaire

Venus was certainly not visible at the Swampville table-d’hôte: for the presiding divinity was a perfect Hecate; and her attendant damsels could have found no place in the train of the Cytherean goddess.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

Ah how often she swore by the Cytherean that she would be here at evenfall; but she recks not of either men or gods.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

The Cytherean spoke, and sought her son's embrace, and laid the armour glittering under an oak over against him.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The Cytherean babes had set their torches to that flotilla, and it had blazed like match-wood.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir