Galatea
(noun) (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion’s prayers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
After Galatea, a British man-of-war, since the material was used for children's sailor suits.
galatea (plural galateas)
(textiles) A strong cotton fabric with diagonal twill weave.
Galatea
(Greek mythology) Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.
(Greek mythology) Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.
(Greek mythology) Galatea; name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion.
(astronomy) A moon of Neptune.
(astronomy) 74 Galatea, a main belt asteroid.
A settlement in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, named after HMS Galatea.
Source: Wiktionary
Gal`a*te"a, n. [After Galatea, a British man-of-war, the material being used for children's sailor suits.]
Definition: A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 February 2025
(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
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.
