Diana

Examples

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• On this night, oh great goddess Diana, we restore your virgin flesh and bring you back to real life.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The temple of Diana used to stand at Ephesus.

  Academic text (2006)

• Tribute to Diana, goddess of the hunt.

  Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)

• The Roman goddess of hunting, Diana, was also associated with woods, childbirth, and the moon.

  Academic text (2002)

• Diana laid her arrows aside and lifted the vessel to her dusty lips.

  Fiction book (1997)

• And then Morpheus, the god of sleep, covers everything with his cloak of night, as Diana, using the new moon as a bow, shoots an arrow of fire that spangles the sky with stars.

  Fantasia (1940)

• Tribute to Diana, goddess of the hunt.

• She is Diana, goddess of the hunt.

• The Roman goddess of hunting, Diana, was also associated with woods, childbirth, and the moon.

Synonyms

C

Cynthia

vsDiana

• Literature

558 9.6

A name used in poems for Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting and the Moon

is the Roman form used in mythology rather than a poetic name

A

Artemis

vsDiana

• Literature

45 8.0

A goddess of hunting, wild places, and the moon who protects animals and young women

is the Roman equivalent of that Greek goddess in another culture

Surface Forms

Etymology