Venus(noun)

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'

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

Venus, Urania(noun)

goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite

Venus, genus Venus(noun)

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

Venus(ProperNoun)

the goddess of love, beauty, and natural productivity

Venus(ProperNoun)

The second planet in our solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by u2640.

Venus(ProperNoun)

Sexual activity or intercourse; sex, lust, venery.

venus(Noun)

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

Venus(noun)

the goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified

Venus(noun)

one of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus

Venus(noun)

the metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus

Venus(noun)

any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food

Venus

the Roman goddess of love, of wedded love, and of beauty (originally of the spring), and at length identified with the Greek Aphrodité (q. v.); she was regarded as the tutelary goddess of Rome, and had a temple to her honour in the Forum.

Venus

an interior planet of the solar system, revolving in an orbit outside that of Mercury and within that of the earth, nearly as large as the latter; is 67 millions of miles from the sun, round which it revolves in 224 days, while it takes 23¼ hours to rotate on its own axis; it is the brightest of the heavenly bodies, and appears in the sky now as the morning star, now as the evening star, according as it rises before the sun or sets after it, so that it is always seen either in the E. or the W.; when right between us and the sun it is seen moving as a black spot on the sun's disk, a phenomenon known as "Transit of Venus," the last instance of which occurred in 1882, and that will not occur again till after 105½ years.

Venus

The second planet in order from the sun. It has no known natural satellites. It is one of the four inner or terrestrial planets of the solar system.