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Orion vs Scion - What's the difference?

orion | scion |

As a proper noun Orion

is a giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos, and killed by Artemis.

As a noun scion is

a descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.

orion

English

(wikipedia Orion)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Greek mythology) A giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos, and killed by Artemis.
  • (constellation) A constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
  • of modern usage.
  • * 1980 (Wright Morris), Plains Song, for Female Voices , Harper&Row, ISBN 0060130474, page 113:
  • In Madge's judgment, her Uncle Orion had suffered most of his life from the name he'd been given, requiring that people ask him to repeat it and boys his own age make fun of it.
  • A ghost hamlet in Alberta, Canada
  • A ghost town in California
  • A commune in France
  • A village in Illinois
  • A municipality in Bataan, the Philippines
  • A town in Wisconsin
  • Synonyms

    * (constellation) the Hunter, ensifer

    Derived terms

    * Orionid * Orionis

    See also

    * Orion's Belt * Orion Nebula * * ----

    scion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ** *** sioun *** syoun ** *** syon ** *** sien *** sion *** syen *** syon ** *** seyon *** sien *** syen * ** *** cyun ** *** cion ** *** cien *** cion *** cyen *** cyon ** *** cion (now chiefly in botanical senses) * ** *** science *** scyence *** siens *** sient ** *** cions *** cyence *** cyens *** cyons *** sciance *** science *** scient *** sience *** siens *** sient * ** *** scyon ** *** scion *** scioun ** *** scion ** *** scien *** scion *** scyen ** *** scion *** scyon ** *** scion (standard spelling)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
  • A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
  • The heir to a throne.
  • A guardian.
  • Quotations

    * '>citation * 1966 , , An Early Passover , Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24 *: It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion. * 1986 , , Penguin, paperback edition, page 72 *: He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?

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