Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The planet Venus in its appearance as the evening star.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The evening star; especially, the planet Venus as evening star (as morning star, called by the Greeks Phosphoros, and by the Romans Lucifer, ‘light-bringer’): in mythology, personified as a son of Astræus and Eos (Aurora), or a son or brother of Atlas, and sometimes called the “father of the Hesperides.” Also, poetically, Hesper.
- noun [NL.] In entomology, a genus of Staphylinidæ or rove-beetles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
- noun Poetic Evening.
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- proper noun The
planet Venus when observed as anevening star .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another very amenable aspect of all things Hesperus is the forewords and for this book they have enlisted Russell Hoban who quotes the poem as a form of explanation for all these short stories.
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Another very amenable aspect of all things Hesperus is the forewords and for this book they have enlisted Russell Hoban who quotes the poem as a form of explanation for all these short stories.
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Another very amenable aspect of all things Hesperus is the forewords and for this book they have enlisted Russell Hoban who quotes the poem as a form of explanation for all these short stories.
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The evening star they called Hesperus, and from its place on the western horizon, fabled an earthly hero of that name, the son of Atlas, who from the slopes of that mountain on the verge of the known world used to observe the stars until eventually carried off by a mighty wind, and so translated to the skies.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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Both Floribel and Olivia are gentle girls — Hesperus is a person swayed by circumstances and his own passions — Claudio is a sort of joker — and the rest have no very distinguishing traits.
Review of The Brides' Tragedy Barry Cornwall 1823
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Hesperus is admitted to his father, in chains and in a dungeon, when the following dialogue ensues.
Review 1823
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Hesperus is preparing for execution at the hands of the state.
Introduction 1821
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Instead of finding the strength of the play to be in its radical interiorization of conflict as Agar does, Thompson finds that the "play fails to dramatize the conflict between free will and necessity; Hesperus is a passive, emotionally disoriented (although not insane, as other characters and some critics assume) spiritual bankrupt whose only solution is to negate life"
Introduction 1821
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Because of his deliberations regarding his promise to his father, Hesperus is late to visit
Introduction 1821
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Greek philosophers to realize the identity of Phosphorus and Hesperus, that is Venus at her two elongations, so that the Greeks did not know this until the sixth century before our era.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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