🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

우라니아

Pronunciation / Transliteration: u-ra-ni-a

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Urania/jʊˈreɪ.ni.ə/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"우라니아는 그리스 신화에서 천문학을 관장하는 무소스입니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    In Greek mythology, the Muse of astronomy and astrological writings, typically represented holding a celestial globe and a stylus.

    "Classical Renaissance paintings often depict Urania pointing toward the heavens with her celestial pointer."
  2. 2

    A poetic or literary personification of astronomy and the starry heavens.

    "Milton invokes Urania at the beginning of Paradise Lost to guide his song into heavenly themes."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Ancient Greek Ourania (Οὐρανία), meaning heavenly or celestial, originating from ouranos (οὐρανός, sky or heaven). In Greek mythology, Urania was the muse of astronomy and astrological writings, and the term has historically been adopted across European languages to name scientific institutions, observatories, and astronomical bodies.

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