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Definition of Urania

Urania
Urania U*ra"ni*a, n. [L., from Gr. ?, i. e., the Heavenly, fr. ? heavenly, fr. ? heaven.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

Meaning of Urania from wikipedia

- Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, her attributes being the globe and comp****. The muse Urania is sometimes confused with Aphrodite Urania...
- Look up Urania, urania, or Uránia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urania is a muse in Gr**** mythology. Urania may also refer to: Urania, daughter...
- Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Gr****: Ἀφροδίτη Οὐρανία, romanized: Aphrodítē Ouranía, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Gr**** goddess Aphrodite...
- The Urania Award (known in Italian as the Premio Urania) is an annual literary competition run by the Italian magazine Urania for contemporary Italian...
- Urania is a genus of colorful, dayflying moths in the family Uraniidae, native to warmer parts of the Americas. Their larvae feed on Omphalea. The genus...
- Clio, Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Terpsic****, Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, and Urania. In modern figurative usage, a muse is a person who serves as someone's...
- Netherlands Navy have been named HNLMS Urania after Urania, the muse of astronomy in Gr**** mythology: HNLMS Urania (1928), was a training ship of the Royal...
- Urania is a science centre and scientific society in Berlin, Germany. Urania was founded in Berlin in 1888, following an idea of Alexander von Humboldt...
- Urania Cottage was a Magdalene asylum, in the terminology of the time, hostel or women's shelter, founded in London in 1847 by the novelist Charles ****ens...
- Urânia is a muni****lity in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city has a po****tion of 9,120 inhabitants and an area of 208.9 km². Urânia belongs to...