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Diana vs Adonis - What's the difference?

diana | adonis |

As nouns the difference between diana and adonis

is that diana is while adonis is adonis (beautiful man).

diana

English

(wikipedia Diana)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Roman god) The daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.
  • * :
  • So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and all the world worshippeth.
  • (astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
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  • * 1605 , Remains Concerning Britain , John Russell Smith, 1870, page 56:
  • But succeeding ages (little regarding S. Chrysosthome's admonition to the contrary) have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana , Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.
  • * 1993 , Queens Have Died Young and Fair , P. Owen, ISBN 0720608864, page 94:
  • A wholesome British name like Diana , Anne, Margaret or Elizabeth impresses a judge much more than all your vulgar Marilyns, Donnas, Madonnas and Dawns.

    Coordinate terms

    * (Eternal Virgin Goddesses) Artemis, Athena/Minerva, Hestia/Vesta

    See also

    * Cynthia * Delia

    Anagrams

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    References

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    adonis

    Translingual

    Proper noun

  • Hypernyms

    * (genus) (Ranunculaceae Hypernyms); Ranunculoideae - subfamily; Adonideae - tribe

    Hyponyms

    * (genus) (species)