urania Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (Greek mythology) the Muse of astronomy
  2. noun goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
    Venus.

WordNet


U*ra"ni*a noun
Etymology
L., from Gr. , i. e., the Heavenly, fr. heavenly, fr. heaven.
Definitions
  1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
  2. (Zoöl.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

Webster 1913