'Pluto' definitions:
Definition of 'Pluto'
From: WordNet
noun
A cartoon character created by Walt Disney
noun
(Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone [syn: Pluto, Hades, Aides, Aidoneus]
noun
A small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets; "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930"
Definition of 'Pluto'
From: GCIDE
- Pluto \Plu"to\ (pl[=u]"t[-o]), pr. n. [L., fr. Gr. Plou`twn.]
- 1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The ninth planet of the Solar System, the smallest (5700 km radius) and most distant from the sun. The suggestion has been made that it more closely resembles a large close comet than a planet. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.248, larger than that of any other planet; it varies from 4.44 to 7.37 billion km distance from the sun. [PJC]
- Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice. --Ron Cohen (Science News, Feb. 27, 1999, p. 139)
- Pluto monkey (Zool.), a long-tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Pluto'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Agdistis,
- Aides,
- Aidoneus,
- Amor,
- Aphrodite,
- Apollo,
- Apollon,
- Ares,
- Artemis,
- asteroid,
- Ate,
- Athena,
- Bacchus,
- Cerberus,
- Ceres,
- Charon,
- Cora,
- Cronus,
- Cupid,
- Cybele,
- Demeter,
- Despoina,
- Diana,
- Dionysus,
- Dis,
- Dis pater,
- Earth,
- Erebus,
- Eros,
- Gaea,
- Gaia,
- Ge,
- Great Mother,
- Hades,
- Hel,
- Helios,
- Hephaestus,
- Hera,
- Here,
- Hermes,
- Hestia,
- Hymen,
- Hyperion,
- inferior planet,
- Jove,
- Juno,
- Jupiter,
- Jupiter Fidius,
- Jupiter Fulgur,
- Jupiter Optimus Maximus,
- Jupiter Pluvius,
- Jupiter Tonans,
- Kore,
- Kronos,
- Loki,
- Magna Mater,
- major planet,
- Mars,
- Mercury,
- Minerva,
- minor planet,
- Minos,
- Mithras,
- Momus,
- Neptune,
- Nike,
- Olympians,
- Olympic gods,
- Ops,
- Orcus,
- Osiris,
- Persephassa,
- Persephone,
- Phoebus,
- Phoebus Apollo,
- planet,
- planetoid,
- Poseidon,
- Proserpina,
- Proserpine,
- Rhadamanthus,
- Rhea,
- Satan,
- Saturn,
- secondary planet,
- solar system,
- superior planet,
- Tellus,
- terrestrial planet,
- Uranus,
- Venus,
- Vesta,
- Vulcan,
- wanderer,
- Zeus