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Uranus

noun

(Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology. Synonym: Ouranos.

A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites.

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"Uranus" Quotes from Famous Books

... naturally betrayed the ancient writers into great inconsistencies. For in the Golden Age of Saturn, we find wars waged, and crimes committed. Saturn expelled his father, and seized his throne; Jupiter, his son, treated Saturn as he had done his father Uranus; and Jupiter, in his turn, had to wage war against the Giants, in their attempt to dispossess ...

— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso

... mythical lore which Elenko had gleaned as the minister of Phoebus to that now imparted by Prometheus! The Titan had seen all, and been a part of all that he had seen. He had bowed beneath the sceptre of Uranus, he had witnessed his fall, and marked the ocean crimson with his blood. He remembered hoary Saturn a brisk active Deity, pushing his way to the throne of Heaven, and devouring in a trice the stone that now resists his fangs for millenniums. He had heard ...

— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett

Words linked to "Uranus" : outer planet, Greek mythology, Jovian planet, superior planet, gas giant, Greek deity, solar system, Ouranos