Definition of Astarte

1. Noun. An ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar.

Exact synonyms: Ashtoreth
Geographical relationships: Phenicia, Phoenicia
Generic synonyms: Semitic Deity

Definition of Astarte

1. n. A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

Definition of Astarte

1. Proper noun. A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war. Name is derived from known from Northwestern Semitic regions, and is cognate in name, origin(,) and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Astarte

1. A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. Origin: Gr. A Phoenician goddess. (19 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Astarte

astable
astacins
astacus
astaghfirullah
astand
astarboard
astare
astars
astart
astarted
astarting
astarts
astasia
astasia-abasia
astasias
astatane
astatic
astatic coils
astatic galvanometer
astatically
astaticism
astatine
astatines

Literary usage of Astarte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"After the political extinction of Sem- it¡кт, and the consequent Depreciation of Ishtar- astarte (along with the decline of the complementary Baal-worship), ..."

2. History of Herodotus: A New English Version by Herodotus, George Rawlinson (1880)
"2. Had different names in different countries. 3. A Nature-Goddess. 4. The Syrian Goddess. 5. The Paphian Venus, or Urania, identified with astarte and ..."

3. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"Moreover, astarte is shown not a whit weaker in potency than the "Virgin of the Sea" of ... Boreas and astarte may be "Devils" in theological fancy, but, ..."

4. East of the Jordan: A Record of Travel and Observation in the Countries of by Selah Merrill (1881)
"Dr. JL Porter found here what he calls "a colossal head of astarte, sadly broken, * * * with the crescent moon, which gave to this goddess the name ..."

5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1908)
"ARGYNNIS astarte, DOUBL.-HEW. I3Y HENRY SKINNER, MD, PHILADELPHIA. This was the butterfly we did not get. Dr. James Fletcher and the writer arrived at Lake ..."

6. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1857)
"The prevailing astarte, its contemporary, was astarte arctica, now so rare as a British species, that many of our most sedulous collectors have never seen a ..."

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