Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology The god of prophecy, music, medicine, and poetry, sometimes identified with the sun.
- noun A young man of great physical beauty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek and later in Roman mythology, one of the great Olympian gods, the son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leto (Latona), representing the light- and life-giving influence, as well as the deadly power, of the sun, and often identified with the sun-god, Helios.
- noun [lowercase] In entomology, a butterfly, Papilio apollo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Classic Myth.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the “sun god”), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also
Phébus . - noun a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.
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- noun astronomy An
asteroid possessing anorbit that crosses the orbit of theEarth and an orbital period of over oneyear , withsemimajor axes greater than 1AU , andperihelion distances less than 1.017 AU. - proper noun astronomy The
planet Mercury , when observed as aMorning Star . - proper noun A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.
- proper noun with “the” Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
- proper noun A butterfly (Parnassius apollo, a large
swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings). - proper noun A male given name.
- proper noun A placename.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis
Etymologies
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_Phoebus_ -- The Apollo of the Romans; the Sun. _Phoebus Apollo_ -- Phoebus the Destroyer, or the Purifier.
Philothea A Grecian Romance Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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It was a monstrous serpent that assailed and strove to destroy the _mother_ of Apollo ere yet the birth of the god, but which, long after, _Apollo_ in turn assaulted and slew.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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APOLLO: God of music and poetry, Apollo was the original rock star of Ancient
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APOLLO: God of music and poetry, Apollo was the original rock star of Ancient
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Graham, The reason we can't use one rocket as we did in Apollo is that this time around the mass being thrown at the moon is much greater then before.
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Graham, The reason we can't use one rocket as we did in Apollo is that this time around the mass being thrown at the moon is much greater then before.
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The first Apollo missions and the eventual collapse of interest in Apollo is evidence of that.
Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009
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Indeed, sustainability leaders have annexed the term Apollo to catalyze a vision of a clean energy revolution.
Marc Stoiber: Mitigation: The Wrong Way to Look at Green Innovation 2010
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Cabiri and of Samothrace to the two Gods in the Constellation Gemini; whom others term Apollo and Hercules, two names of the Sun. Athenion says that the young Cabirus so slain was the same as the Dionusos or
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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The name "Apollo" immediately conjures up images and feelings of power.
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