Diana

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diana \Di*a"na\, n. [L. Diana.] (Myth.)
     The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who
     presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified
     with the Greek goddess {Artemis}.
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           And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. --Pope.
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     {Diana monkey} (Zool.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of
        West Africa ({Cercopithecus Diana}).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Diana
       n 1: English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles;
            her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced
            intense national mourning (1961-1997) [syn: {Princess
            Diana}, {Princess of Wales}, {Lady Diana Frances Spencer}]
       2: (Roman mythology) virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon;
          counterpart of Greek Artemis

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "Diana":
     Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis,
     Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus,
     Cupid, Cybele, Cynthia, Demeter, Despoina, Dionysus, Dis, Eros,
     Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hecate, Hekate, Helios,
     Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove,
     Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
     Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore,
     Kronos, Luna, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus,
     Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa,
     Persephone, Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon,
     Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Selene, Tellus, Venus, Vesta,
     Vulcan, Zeus
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  DIANA
       
          {Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada}
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Diana
     so called by the Romans; called Artemis by the Greeks, the
     "great" goddess worshipped among heathen nations under various
     modifications. Her most noted temple was that at Ephesus. It was
     built outside the city walls, and was one of the seven wonders
     of the ancient world. "First and last it was the work of 220
     years; built of shining marble; 342 feet long by 164 feet broad;
     supported by a forest of columns, each 56 feet high; a sacred
     museum of masterpieces of sculpture and painting. At the centre,
     hidden by curtains, within a gorgeous shrine, stood the very
     ancient image of the goddess, on wood or ebony reputed to have
     fallen from the sky. Behind the shrine was a treasury, where, as
     in 'the safest bank in Asia,' nations and kings stored their
     most precious things. The temple as St. Paul saw it subsisted
     till A.D. 262, when it was ruined by the Goths" (Acts
     19:23-41)., Moule on Ephesians: Introd.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Diana, luminous, perfect
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Diana, WV
    Zip code(s): 26217