1.
[syn: Diana, Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, Lady Diana Frances Spencer]
2. (Roman mythology) virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon; counterpart of Greek Artemis;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Diana \Di*a"na\, n. [L. Diana.] (Myth.)
The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who
presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified
with the Greek goddess Artemis.
[1913 Webster]
And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
Diana monkey (Zool.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of
West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Diana
n 1: English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince
Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris
produced intense national mourning (1961-1997) [syn:
Diana, Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, Lady Diana
Frances Spencer]
2: (Roman mythology) virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon;
counterpart of Greek Artemis
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "Diana":
Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis,
Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus,
Cupid, Cybele, Cynthia, Demeter, Despoina, Dionysus, Dis, Eros,
Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hecate, Hekate, Helios,
Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove,
Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore,
Kronos, Luna, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus,
Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa,
Persephone, Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon,
Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Selene, Tellus, Venus, Vesta,
Vulcan, Zeus
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada
DIANA
(DIANA) A formerly de facto standard
intermediate language for Ada programs, developed by Goos
and Wulf at CMU in January 1981. DIANA is an attributed
tree representation, with an abstract interface defined in
Interface Description Language (Nestor, Lamb and Wulf, CMU,
1981; Snodgrass(?), 1989(?)). DIANA resulted from a merger of
AIDA and TCOL.Ada. At the present (2001) it is no longer
used by the major ADA compilers
["DIANA - An Intermediate Language for Ada", G.T. Goos et al,
LNCS 161, Springer 1983].
(2001-09-15)
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Diana
so called by the Romans; called Artemis by the Greeks, the
"great" goddess worshipped among heathen nations under various
modifications. Her most noted temple was that at Ephesus. It was
built outside the city walls, and was one of the seven wonders
of the ancient world. "First and last it was the work of 220
years; built of shining marble; 342 feet long by 164 feet broad;
supported by a forest of columns, each 56 feet high; a sacred
museum of masterpieces of sculpture and painting. At the centre,
hidden by curtains, within a gorgeous shrine, stood the very
ancient image of the goddess, on wood or ebony reputed to have
fallen from the sky. Behind the shrine was a treasury, where, as
in 'the safest bank in Asia,' nations and kings stored their
most precious things. The temple as St. Paul saw it subsisted
till A.D. 262, when it was ruined by the Goths" (Acts
19:23-41)., Moule on Ephesians: Introd.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's):
Diana, luminous, perfect