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Minervas

Minervas is the plural of Minerva.

Meaning of Minerva

Proper noun (1)

Minerva (plural Minervas)

  1. (Roman) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving. She is the Roman counterpart of Athena.
    • In many works of this ſpecies, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become wiſe and virtuous as well as happy, by a train of events and circumſtances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate; and to act like goddeſſes of wiſdom, juſt come forth highly finiſhed Minervas from the...1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “Author’s Preface”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson...
  2. 93 Minerva, a main belt asteroid.
  3. (poetic) Wisdom.

Proper noun (2)

Minerva (plural Minervas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Questions about Minervas

What is Minervas the plural of?
Minervas is the plural of Minerva.

Words near Minervas in the dictionary

  1. miners' safety candlestick
  2. Minerva
  3. minerval
  4. minervals
  5. Minervan
  6. Minervas
  7. Minervic
  8. Minervini
  9. Minervinis
  10. minery
  11. mines

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