galatea
IPA: gæɫʌtˈiʌ
noun
- (textiles) A strong cotton fabric with diagonal twill weave.
- (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.
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Examples of "galatea" in Sentences
- Go safely there and be happy, Galatea,
- There is already a section on Galatea there.
- At some point he constructed the android Galatea.
- Galatea literally walks through water to get to him.
- Galatea is embedded in an unnamed narrow and faint ringlet.
- Galatea is a clone of an alternate Earth version of Supergirl.
- Galatea received similar alteration before the outbreak of war.
- On the way Galatea hit a further mine and was slightly damaged.
- Pygmalion and Galatea celebrate their wedding in the palace of Venus.
- Among these, the song of Caliope, in the last book of the Galatea, stands out.
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