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Cytherea

Cytherea proper noun: the goddess Aphrodite.

Proper noun

Cytherea

  1. (Greek) The goddess Aphrodite.
    • Has Fashion iced that snowy breast / Where Cytherea's doves might rest, / Till sighs of Songland, sore distrest, / Its feelings may not harrow?1876, “The Little Birds to Lesbia”, in Punch, volumes 69-70, page 218
    • The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24

Origin of Cytherea

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), via Latin Cytherea.

Questions about Cytherea

What does Cytherea mean?
Cytherea means the goddess Aphrodite.
What part of speech is Cytherea?
Cytherea is a proper noun.

Words near Cytherea in the dictionary

  1. cytee
  2. cytees
  3. cytes
  4. cytesin
  5. Cythera
  6. Cytherea
  7. Cytherean
  8. Cythereans
  9. cytherellid
  10. cytherellids
  11. Cytherian

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