Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun uranus

2 senses of uranus

Sense 1
Ouranos, Uranus -- ((Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology)
       INSTANCE OF=> Greek deity -- (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Sense 2
Uranus -- (a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites; "Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781")
       INSTANCE OF=> Jovian planet, gas giant -- (any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter))
       INSTANCE OF=> superior planet -- (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)
       INSTANCE OF=> outer planet -- ((astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto))