VESTA
\vˈɛstə], \vˈɛstə], \v_ˈɛ_s_t_ə]\
Definitions of VESTA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
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An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
By Oddity Software
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One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
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An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
By Noah Webster.
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Among the Romans, the chaste goddess that presided over the family, in whose temple the sacred fire was continually kept burning: a match or waxlight:-pl. VESTAS.
By Daniel Lyons
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The goddess of the hearth and the hearth - fire, and protectress of the state; in her temple in Rome the sacred fire, brought by Aeneas from Troy, was kept up and guarded day and night by the vestal virgins. Hestia.
By James Champlin Fernald
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