Aphrodite Synonyms

ăfrə-dītē
Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cytherea
  2. balder
  3. cleopatra
  4. hebe

Words Related to Aphrodite

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. goddess
  2. hathor
  3. freyja
  4. bacchus
  5. cybele
  6. ishtar
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Aphrodite Sentence Examples

  • Aphrodite and Apollo preserved it from corruption and mutilation.

  • In Homer Ares is the lover of Aphrodite, the wife of Hephaestus, who catches them together in a net and holds them up to the ridicule of the gods.

  • The plasma may be pink (Magelona) or yellow (Aphrodite) in which cases the colour is owing to another pigment.

  • As the plant of purity it was contrasted with the rose of Aphrodite.

  • His name is preserved in the Sicilian Minoa, and his tomb was pointed out in the neighbourhood of Agrigentum, with a shrine above dedicated to his native Aphrodite, the lady of the dove; and in this connexion it must be observed that the cult of Eryx perpetuates to much later times the characteristic features of the worship of the Cretan Nature goddess, as now revealed to us in the palace of Cnossus and elsewhere.

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