Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- idiom (by Jove) Used as a mild oath to express surprise or emphasis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The highest god of the Romans; Jupiter; the supreme ruler of heaven and earth, manifesting himself especially in atmospheric phenomena: as, Jove's thunderbolts. See
Jupiter . - noun The planet Jupiter.
- noun [lowercase] In alchemy, the metal tin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The chief divinity of the ancient Romans; Jupiter.
- proper noun (Astron.), rare The planet Jupiter.
- proper noun (Alchemy) The metal tin.
- proper noun the eagle.
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- proper noun Roman mythology
Jupiter , god of the sky.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus
Etymologies
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Examples
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"By Jove -- by _Jove_!" said the Honourable John Ruffin softly.
Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900
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Upon another coin Jove holds a similar looking object.
The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion John Denham Parsons
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Then indeed his wrath swells; and forced to it by their treachery, while chariot and horses disappear, he calls Jove oft and again to witness, and the altars of the violated treaty, and now at last plunges amid their lines.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Lord of Lords; and does the name Jove instead of Jehovah (perhaps the same word too) make the difference?
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Then when C began to come along I said, 'Cayley, b'Jove' -- bright, aren't I?
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"Well, that's my morning's work done -- no, it isn't -- yes, no, by Jove, there's a code word for No. 237 Filtration Unit to be thought out.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 Various
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The other Achaeans sat where they were all silent and orderly to hear the king, and Agamemnon looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying, “I call Jove the first and mightiest of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and Sun and the
The Iliad of Homer 1898
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The name Jove may be unpleasant to some ears: it is to mine ” not because it is the name given to their deity by men who had had little outward revelation, but because of the associations which the wanton poets, not the good philosophers, have gathered about it.
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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Jove, that is all right; it is like the wedding of
Une Vie 2003
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It may well be called Joves tree, when it drops forth such fruit.
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