(n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
(n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(2) Homer describes a game called Urania in the Odyssey .
Uranian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.