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Venus

name · noun · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈviːnəs/
  • US: /ˈvinəs/
  • US: [ˈvinɪ̈s]
  • [ˈvɛ.nɐs] Ghana
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːnəs
  • homophone: venus
  • homophone: venous
  • /ˈviːnəs/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: Venus
  • CMU ARPABET: V IY1 N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

The second planet in the Solar system.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: morning star, Phosphorus, Eosphorus, Lucifer; evening star, Vesper, Hesperus

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mul:♀, morning star, Phosphorus, Eosphorus, Lucifer, evening star, Vesper, Hesperus

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality, or a depiction thereof.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Roman

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A female given name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Sexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: poetic, uncountable

Qualifier: otherwise obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, uncountable

Topics: alchemy, chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, pseudoscience

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Topics: art, arts

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: genus Venus

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mollusk genus

10

noun

Meaning 10

the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: inferior planet, terrestrial planet

11

noun

Meaning 11

goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Urania

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Roman deity

History

Etymology

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

From translingual Venus (“a genus of clams”), from Latin.

Across languages

Translations

335 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: Венера (Venera) — planet
  • Afrikaans: Venus — planet
  • Akkadian: 𒀭𒈹 (Ištar) — planet
  • Albanian: Venusi — planet
  • Albanian: Venus — planet
  • Albanian: Afërdita — planet
  • Southern Altai: чолмон (čolmon) — planet
  • Southern Altai: Таҥ Јылдыс (Taŋ J̌ïldïs) — planet
  • Amharic: ዘሃራ (zähara) — planet
  • Amharic: ቬኑስ (vēnusi) — planet
  • Arabic: الزُّهَرَة (az-zuhara) — planet
  • Arabic: فينوس (fīnūs) — planet
  • Aragonese: Benus — planet
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܸܫܬܵܪ (ʿištar) — planet
  • Aramaic: ܐܣܬܪܐ — planet
  • Aramaic: ܟܘܟܒܬܐ — planet
  • Aramaic: ܒܝܠܬܝ — planet
  • Aramaic: ܟܘܟܒ ܢܘܓܗܐ — planet
  • Aramaic: ܟܘܟܒܐ ܨܦܪܝܐ — planet
  • Aramaic: ܟܘܟܒܐ ܫܦܪܝܐ — planet
  • Armenian: Վեներա (Venera) — planet
  • Armenian: Արուսյակ (Arusyak) — planet
  • Assamese: শুকতৰা (xuktora) — planet
  • Assamese: শুক্ৰ গ্ৰহ (xukro groh) — planet
  • Assamese: শুক্ৰ (xukro) — planet
  • Asturian: Venus — planet
  • Azerbaijani: Venera — planet
  • Azerbaijani: Zöhrə — planet
  • Bashkir: Сулпан (Sulpan) — planet
  • Bashkir: Зөһрә (Zöhrə) — planet
  • Basque: Artizar — planet
  • Belarusian: Вене́ра (Vjenjéra) — planet
  • Belarusian: Вэнэ́ра (Venéra) — planet
  • Bengali: শুক্র (śukro) — planet
  • Breton: Gwener — planet
  • Bulgarian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — planet
  • Burmese: သောကြာ (sau:kra) — planet
  • Buryat: Баасан (Baasan) — planet
  • Carpathian Rusyn: Вене́ра (Venéra) — planet
  • Catalan: Venus — planet
  • Chechen: Венера (Venera) — planet
  • Cherokee: ᎠᎾᏂᏍᏓᎾᎵ (ananisdanali) — planet
  • Chinese Cantonese: 金星 — planet
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 金星 (Gĭng-sĭng) — planet
  • Hakka Chinese: 金星 (Kîm-sên) — planet
  • Chinese: 金星 (Kim-chhen, Kim-chhin) — planet
  • Chinese: 太白星 (Thài-pe̍k-chhen, Thài-pe̍k-chhin) — planet
  • Chinese Mandarin: 金星 (Jīnxīng) — planet
  • Wu Chinese: 金星 (1cin-shin) — planet
  • Coptic: ⲥⲟⲩⲣⲟⲧ (sourot) — planet
  • Cornish: Gwener — planet
  • Crimean Tatar: Çolpan — planet
  • Czech: Venuše — planet
  • Danish: Venus — planet
  • Dutch: Venus — planet
  • Dzongkha: པ་སངས — planet
  • Esperanto: Venuso — planet
  • Estonian: Veenus — planet
  • Faroese: Venus — planet
  • Fijian: Venusi — planet
  • Finnish: Venus — planet
  • French: Vénus — planet
  • West-Frisian: Fenus — planet
  • Galician: Venus — planet
  • Georgian: ვენერა (venera) — planet
  • German: Venus — planet
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌶𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌻 (auzandil) — planet
  • Greek: Αφροδίτη (Afrodíti) — planet
  • Greek: Αυγερινός (Avgerinós) — planet
  • Greek: αποσπερίτης (aposperítis) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Ἔρως (Érōs) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Φωσφόρος (Phōsphóros) — planet
  • Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē) — planet
  • Paraguayan Guarani: Mbyja Ko'ẽ — planet
  • Gujarati: શુક્ર (śukra) — planet
  • Haitian Creole: Venis — planet
  • Hawaiian: Hōkūloa — planet
  • Hebrew: נֹגַהּ — planet
  • Hebrew: נוגה (nógah) — planet
  • Hindi: शुक्र (śukra) — planet
  • Hindi: काव्य (kāvya) — planet
  • Hungarian: Vénusz — planet
  • Icelandic: Venus — planet
  • Ido: Venero — planet
  • Ilocano: Venus — planet
  • Indonesian: Venus — planet
  • Interlingua: Venus — planet
  • Irish: Véineas — planet
  • Italian: Venere — planet
  • Jamaican Creole: Viinos — planet
  • Japanese: 金星 (Kinsei) — planet
  • Japanese: ヴィーナス (Vīnasu) — planet
  • Japanese: ビーナス (Bīnasu) — planet
  • Javanese: Venus — planet
  • Javanese: Sukra — planet
  • Javanese: Johar — planet
  • Jeju: 어스럼새벨 (eoseureomsaebel) — planet
  • Kankanaey: Batakagan — planet
  • Kannada: ಶುಕ್ರ (śukra) — planet
  • Kapampangan: Venus — planet
  • Kapampangan: Sulundagis — planet
  • Kapampangan: Sulung-dagis — planet
  • Karachay-Balkar: Чолпан (Čolpan) — planet
  • Kashubian: Wenus — planet
  • Kazakh: Шолпан (Şolpan) — planet
  • Kazakh: Венера (Venera) — planet
  • Khmer: សុក្រ (sok) — planet
  • Klamath-Modoc: pse gegnis — planet
  • Korean: 금성 (Geumseong) — planet
  • Korean: 샛별 (Saetbyeol) — planet
  • Korean: 개밥바라기 (Gaebapbaragi) — planet
  • Kumyk: Чолпан (Čolpan) — planet
  • Northern Kurdish: Gelawêj — planet
  • Northern Kurdish: Venûs — planet
  • Kyrgyz: Чолпон (Colpon) — planet
  • Kyrgyz: Венера (Venera) — planet
  • Lao: ສຸກ (suk) — planet
  • Lao: ດາວສຸກ (dāo suk) — planet
  • Latin: Venus — planet
  • Latin: Lūcĭfer — planet
  • Latvian: Venera — planet
  • Lingala: Mokwɛtɛ — planet
  • Lingala: Vénusé — planet
  • Lithuanian: Venera — planet
  • : ᦡᦱᧁᦆᧄ (ḋaawxam) — planet
  • Luxembourgish: Venus — planet
  • Macedonian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — planet
  • Malagasy: Venosy — planet
  • Malay: Zuhrah — planet
  • Malayalam: ശുക്രന് (śukraṉ) — planet
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: espasahtuwet — planet
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: welaqahtuwet — planet
  • Maltese: iż-Żahrija — planet
  • Maltese: Venere — planet
  • Manchu: ᡩᡠᡵᡤᡳᠶᠠ (durgiya) — planet
  • Manchu: ᠠᡳᠰᡳᠨ ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ (aisin usiha) — planet
  • Manchu: ᡨᡝᠨ ᡳ ᡧᠠᠨᠶᠠᠨ ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ (ten-i šanyan usiha) — planet
  • Marathi: शुक्र (śukra) — planet
  • Middle English: Venus — planet
  • Mongolian: Сугар — planet
  • Mongolian: ᠱᠤᠭᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ (šuɣar-a) — planet
  • Nahuatl: Citlālpōl — planet
  • Nahuatl: Tlahuizcitlaltlalli — planet
  • Navajo: Biinis — planet
  • Nepali: शुक्र (śukra) — planet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Venus — planet
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Venus — planet
  • Occitan: Vènus — planet
  • Odia: ଶୁକ୍ର (śukra) — planet
  • Ojibwe: giizhigo-anang — planet
  • Ojibwe: nigaabii-anang — planet
  • Ojibwe: waaban-anang — planet
  • Church Slavic: Афродїта (Afrodita) — planet
  • Old English: ēarendel — planet
  • Old Norse: blóðstjarna — planet
  • Old Tupi: Îasytatagûasu — planet
  • Old Tupi: îasytatagûasu — planet
  • Ossetian: Венерӕ (Veneræ) — planet
  • Ossetian: Бонвӕрнон (Bonværnon) — planet
  • Ossetian: Венера (Venera) — planet
  • Pali: sukka — planet
  • Pashto: زهره (zahra) — planet
  • Pashto: ناهيد (nāhid) — planet
  • Dari: نَاهِید (nāhīd) — planet
  • Dari: زُهْرَه (zuhra) — planet
  • Dari: بَیْدَخْت (baydaxt) — planet
  • Iranian Persian: ناهید (nâhid) — planet
  • Iranian Persian: زُهْرِه (zohre) — planet
  • Iranian Persian: بِیْدَخْت (beydaxt) — planet
  • Middle Persian: ʾnʾhyt' (Anāhīd) — planet
  • Polish: Wenus — planet
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Vênus — planet
  • European Portuguese: Vénus — planet
  • Punjabi: ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰ (śukkar) — planet
  • Quechua: ch'aska — planet
  • Quechua: caska — planet
  • Romanian: Venus — planet
  • Russian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — planet
  • Sanskrit: शुक्र (śukra) — planet
  • Santali: ᱢᱟᱨᱥᱟᱞ ᱮᱸᱜᱮᱞ (marsal ẽgel) — planet
  • Scottish Gaelic: An Rìbhinn — planet
  • Scottish Gaelic: Bhèineas — planet
  • Serbo-Croatian: Вѐнера — planet
  • Serbo-Croatian: Vènera — planet
  • Shona: Hweva — planet
  • Shor: Шолбан (Šolban) — planet
  • Sicilian: Vèniri — planet
  • Silesian: Wynus — planet
  • Sinhalese: සිකුරු (sikuru) — planet
  • Slovak: Venuša — planet
  • Slovene: Vénera — planet
  • Somali: Waxaraxir — planet
  • Upper Sorbian: Wenus — planet
  • Sotho: Mphatlalatsane — planet
  • Sotho: Seqhalamatshwejana — planet
  • Sotho: Sefalabohoho — planet
  • Spanish: Venus — planet
  • Swahili: Zuhura — planet
  • Swedish: Venus — planet
  • Tagalog: Benus — planet
  • Tagalog: tanglaw-dagat — planet
  • Tagalog: Tanglaw-daga — planet
  • Tajik: Зӯҳра (Zühra) — planet
  • Tajik: Ноҳид (Nohid) — planet
  • Tamil: வெள்ளி (veḷḷi) — planet
  • Tatar: Чулпан (Çulpan) — planet
  • Tatar: Венера (Wenera) — planet
  • Tatar: Зөһрә (Zöhrä) — planet
  • Telugu: శుక్రుడు (śukruḍu) — planet
  • Telugu: కావ్యుడు (kāvyuḍu) — planet
  • Thai: ดาวศุกร์ (daao sùk) — planet
  • Thai: ศุกร์ (sùk) — planet
  • Tibetan: པ་སངས — planet
  • Tigrinya: ቨኑስ (vänus) — planet
  • Tok Pisin: Vines — planet
  • Tongan: Vēnusi — planet
  • Tswana: Venusi — planet
  • Tumbuka: Chanya la Mphesko — planet
  • Tumbuka: Mphesko — planet
  • Tumbuka: Vinasi — planet
  • Turkish: Venüs — planet
  • Turkish: Çolpan — planet
  • Turkish: Çoban Yıldızı — planet
  • Turkish: Zühre — planet
  • Turkmen: Wenera — planet
  • Tuvan: Шолбан (Şolban) — planet
  • Ukrainian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — planet
  • Urdu: زُہْرَہ (zuhra) — planet
  • Urdu: شُکْر (śukr) — planet
  • Urum: Чолпан — planet
  • Urum: Чолпан йундуз — planet
  • Uyghur: ۋېنېرا (wënëra) — planet
  • Uyghur: چولپان (cholpan) — planet
  • Uzbek: Venera — planet
  • Uzbek: Zuhra — planet
  • Venetan: Venere — planet
  • Vietnamese: Sao Kim — planet
  • Vietnamese: sao Kim — planet
  • Vietnamese: Kim Tinh — planet
  • Vietnamese: sao Mai — planet
  • Vietnamese: sao Hôm — planet
  • Volapük: venud — planet
  • Welsh: Gwener — planet
  • Wolof: Weenus — planet
  • Yakut: Дьэллэҥэ (Jelleŋe) — planet
  • Yakut: Чолбон (Čolbon) — planet
  • Yiddish: ווענוס (venus) — planet
  • Yoruba: Àgùàlà — planet
  • Yoruba: ajá òṣùpá — planet
  • Zhuang: Ndaundeiqhaemh — planet
  • Zhuang: Ndaundeiqgim — planet
  • Zulu: uVinasi — planet
  • Zulu: isiCelankobe — planet
  • Zulu: uNokhwezi — planet
  • Arabic: فِينُوس (fīnūs) — goddess
  • Armenian: Վեներա (Venera) — goddess
  • Azerbaijani: Venera — goddess
  • Belarusian: Вене́ра (Vjenjéra) — goddess
  • Belarusian: Вэнэ́ра (Venéra) — goddess
  • Bulgarian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — goddess
  • Catalan: Venus — goddess
  • Cherokee: ᏪᏄᏏ (wenusi) — goddess
  • Chinese Cantonese: 維納斯 /维纳斯 (wai4 naap6 si1) — goddess
  • Chinese Mandarin: 維納斯 /维纳斯 (Wéinàsī) — goddess
  • Cornish: Gwener — goddess
  • Czech: Venuše — goddess
  • Danish: Venus — goddess
  • Dutch: Venus — goddess
  • Estonian: Venus — goddess
  • Finnish: Venus — goddess
  • French: Vénus — goddess
  • Galician: Venus — goddess
  • Georgian: ვენერა (venera) — goddess
  • Georgian: ასპიროზი (asṗirozi) — goddess
  • Georgian: აფროდიტი (aprodiṭi) — goddess
  • German: Venus — goddess
  • Greek: Αφροδίτη (Afrodíti) — goddess
  • Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδῑ́τη (Aphrodī́tē) — goddess
  • Hawaiian: Wenuka — goddess
  • Hebrew: וֶנוּס (vénus) — goddess
  • Hindi: राधा (rādhā) — goddess
  • Hindi: वीनस (vīnas) — goddess
  • Hungarian: Vénusz — goddess
  • Icelandic: Venus — goddess
  • Indonesian: Venus — goddess
  • Irish: Véineas — goddess
  • Italian: Venere — goddess
  • Japanese: ヴィーナス (Vīnasu) — goddess
  • Japanese: ウェヌス (Wenusu) — goddess
  • Kazakh: Венера (Venera) — goddess
  • Khmer: សុក្រ (sok) — goddess
  • Korean: 베누스 (Benuseu) — goddess
  • Kyrgyz: Венера (Venera) — goddess
  • Lao: ສຸກ (suk) — goddess
  • Lao: ພຣະສຸກ (phra suk) — goddess
  • Latin: Venus — goddess
  • Latvian: Venera — goddess
  • Lithuanian: Venera — goddess
  • Macedonian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — goddess
  • Malay: Venus — goddess
  • Mongolian: Венус — goddess
  • Mongolian: Венера (Venera) — goddess
  • Church Slavic: Афродїта (Afrodita) — goddess
  • Iranian Persian: وِنوس (venus) — goddess
  • Polish: Wenus — goddess
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Vênus — goddess
  • European Portuguese: Vénus — goddess
  • Russian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — goddess
  • Russian: Афроди́та (Afrodíta) — goddess
  • Scottish Gaelic: Bhèineas — goddess
  • Serbo-Croatian: Вѐнера — goddess
  • Serbo-Croatian: Vènera — goddess
  • Sinhalese: වීනස් (wīnas) — goddess
  • Slovak: Venuša — goddess
  • Slovene: Vénera — goddess
  • Spanish: Venus — goddess
  • Swahili: Venusi — goddess
  • Swedish: Venus — goddess
  • Tagalog: Benus — goddess
  • Tagalog: Venus — goddess
  • Tajik: Венера (Venera) — goddess
  • Tatar: Венера (Wenera) — goddess
  • Thai: ศุกร์ (sùk) — goddess
  • Thai: พระศุกร์ (sùk) — goddess
  • Thai: วีนัส (wii-nát) — goddess
  • Turkish: Venüs — goddess
  • Turkmen: Wenera — goddess
  • Ukrainian: Вене́ра (Venéra) — goddess
  • Urdu: وِینَس (vīnas) — goddess
  • Uzbek: Venera — goddess
  • Vietnamese: thần vệ nữ — goddess
  • Vietnamese: thần ái tình — goddess
  • Welsh: Gwener — goddess
  • Yiddish: ווענוס (venus) — goddess
  • Zulu: uVenusi — goddess
Real reading context

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