Neptune

Proper noun

Neptune

1. The eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ♆.
   • At a meeting of the French Academy of Science, M. Leverrier presented a fifth and final memoir on the new planet, which M. Arago proposes to be called Neptune.1846 November 21, “A NEW PLANET-BEAUTIFUL DISCOVERY.”, in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, number 146, page 336, column 1
   • It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheel about the sun, had become very erratic. Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected...1897, H. G. Wells, The Star (Science Fiction)
2. (Roman) The god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology.
   • And Pitheus alſo had giuen it out abroad, that he was begotten of Neptune, becauſe the TROEZENIANS haue this god in great veneration, and doe worſhip him as patron and protector of their citie, making offerings to him of their firſt fruits: and they haue for the marke and ſtamp of their money, the...1595, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 3
3. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
4. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio.
5. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
6. An unincorporated community in the town of Ithaca, Richland County, Wisconsin.