Apollo, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo
(noun) (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Apollo
(Greek god, Roman god): The son of Zeus and Leto, (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis, (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.
(astronomy) The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.
(astronomy) Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.
(NASA, space) A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.
(with "the") Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
The butterfly Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings.
A very handsome young man.
A male given name.
A placename.
• (astronomy): Hermes
Apollo (plural Apollos)
(astronomy) An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.
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apollo (plural apollos)
A very handsome young man.
(entomology) Any of several papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius, especially Parnassius apollo of Eurasia (also known as the mountain apollo).
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Source: Wiktionary
A*pol"lo, n. Etym: [L. Apollo, -linis, Gr. (Classic Myth.)
Definition: A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 April 2025
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
