Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Roman Mythology The goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing the sacred fire tended by the vestal virgins.
- noun The brightest of the asteroids and the second most massive object in the asteroid belt after the dwarf planet Ceres.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the chief divinities of the ancient Romans, equivalent to the Greek Hestia, one of the twelve great Olympians, the virgin goddess of the hearth, presiding over both the private family altar and the central altar of the city, the tribe, or the race.
- noun The fourth planetoid, discovered by Olbers, at Bremen, in 1807.
- noun [lowercase] A wax match which may be ignited by friction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Myth.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
- noun (Astron.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
- noun A wax friction match.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Roman mythology The
Roman equivalent of theGreek goddessHestia . - proper noun A female
given name in occasional use. - proper noun astronomy The fourth
asteroid discovered.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia
- noun the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pythagoreans place the element of fire, which they call Vesta and the
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Vesta, below the Palatine, is annexed the house of the Vestals; the small round temple of the Mater Matuba, in the Forum Boarium, has been commonly called Vesta's.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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A meteorite from the asteroid known as Vesta, which is one of the largest asteroids in our solar system.
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Right now is one of those times - a time known as Vesta's "opposition."
Fore, right! Dennis Mammana 2010
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Right now is one of those times - a time known as Vesta's "opposition."
Fore, right! Dennis Mammana 2010
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Just last week, a space probe began orbiting a huge asteroid called Vesta, which lies beyond Mars.
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Scientists call Vesta a "protoplanet" because it almost formed into a planet like Mars or Earth.
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Just last week, a space probe began orbiting a huge asteroid called Vesta, which lies beyond Mars.
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Dawn should reach the asteroid called Vesta in 2011 and the dwarf planet Ceres in four years later.
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In a previous life I was a small part of a project called Vesta that developed a fairly radical approach to Software Configuration Management.
Archive 2006-04-01 Jim Horning 2006
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