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Definition: Andromeda |
AndromedaNoun1. Broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers. 2. Any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers. 3. A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cassiopeia and Pegasus; contains the Andromeda Galaxy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Andromeda" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be mindful of a man". |
Date "andromeda" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
Etymology: Andromeda \An*drom"e*da\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When bound to rock and exposed to sea monster, she was delivered by Perseus.]. (references) |
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Aerospace | See constellation.Abbreviation And, Andr). (references) |
Literature | Andromeda Daughter of Cepheus (2 syl.) and Cassiopeia. Her mother boasted that the beauty of Andromeda surpassed that of the Nereids; so the Nereids induced Neptune to send a seamonster on the country, and an oracle declared that Andromeda must be given up to it. She was accordingly chained to a rock, but was delivered by Perseus (2 syl.). After death she was placed among the stars. (See Angelica.) Ovid: Metamorphoses, v. 1, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Andromeda ("ruler of men"), in Greek legend, was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the Ethiopians.
Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, drew down the vengeance of Poseidon, who sent an inundation on the land and a sea-monster, Kraken, which destroyed man and beast. The oracle of Ammon having announced that no relief would be found until the king exposed his daughter Andromeda to the monster, she was fastened to a rock on the shore.
Perseus, returning from having slain the Gorgon, found Andromeda, slew the monster, set her free, and married her in spite of Phineus, to whom she had before been promised. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals, and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head (Ovid, Metamorphoses v. 1).
Andromeda followed her husband to Tiryns in Argos, and became the ancestress of the family of the Perseidae through Perseus' and Andromeda's son, Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had six sons (Perseides): Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, and Electryon, and one daughter, Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus got the kingdom, and include the great hero Heracles.
After her death she was placed by Athena amongst the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia. Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.
Apollodorus, Bibliotheke II, iv, 3-5; Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 668-764.
- Andromeda is a northern constellation of stars representing the mythological Andromeda. See Andromeda (constellation) and Andromeda Galaxy.
- Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda is a television series. See Andromeda (television).
- Andromeda is also a plant genus (family Ericaceae). See Andromeda (genus).
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Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (a posthumous creation) is a TV-series which premiered in the fall of 2000 and by August 2003 was in it's fourth season. It stars Kevin Sorbo as Captain Dylan Hunt, rescued from a 300-year stasis near a black hole to find that Systems Commonwealth, a peaceful democratic government with over one million member worlds, has fallen. He and his ship, the Andromeda Ascendant, are now on their own in a new and terrifying Dark Age.Captain Hunt assembles a raggedy crew of humans and aliens aboard the Andromeda and sets out to revive the ideals of the Commonwealth.
See List of Andromeda Episodes.
Cast
- Kevin Sorbo - Dylan Hunt
- Lisa Ryder - Beka Valentine
- Keith Hamilton Cobb - Tyr Anasazi
- Gordon Michael Woolvett - Seamus Harper
- Laura Bertram - Trance Gemini
- Lexa Doig - Andromeda Ascendant, Rommie, Andromeda
- Brent Strait - Rev Bem (season 1 and 2)
Recurring and guest characters
- Steve Bacic - Gaheris Rhade
- John de Lancie - Uncle Sid
- James Marsters - Charlemagne Bolivar
- Michael Shanks - Gabriel
- Tony Todd - Fehdman Metis
- William B. Davis - Professor Logitch
- Alex Diakun - Hohne
- John Tench - Gerentex
- Dylan Bierk - Freya
- Brent Strait - Rev Bem (season 3)
External links:
Directed by David Winning
- Andromeda official website
- All Systems University
- Log in to the Andromeda Ascendant
- David Winning Official Site (Director)
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Andromeda
larger imageAbbreviation And Genitive Andromedae Meaning in English the princess Andromeda Right ascension 1 h Declination 40° Visible to latitude Between 90° and -40° Best visible November Area
- TotalRanked 19th
722 sq. deg.Number of stars with
apparent magnitude < 33 Brightest star
- Apparent magnitudeAlpheratz (α And)
2.1Meteor showers
- Andromedids
(Bielids)Bordering constellations
- Perseus
- Cassiopeia
- Lacerta
- Pegasus
- Pisces
- Triangulum
Andromeda is a constellation representing the princess Andromeda, in the northern sky near Pegasus. The constellation takes the general shape of a long, dim, straggly letter "A". It is most notable for containing the Andromeda Galaxy.
Notable features
The brightest star in Andromeda, α Andromedae, called Alpheratz or Sirrah, makes up with α, β, and λ Pegasi an asterism called the Great Square of Pegasus. This star was once considered part of Pegasus, as confirmed by its name, "shoulder of the horse."β Andromedae is called Mirach, the girdle. It is 88 light years distant and of magnitude 2,1.
γ Andromedae, or Almach, is found at the tip of the southern leg of the big "A". It is a beautiful multiple star with contrasting colours.
υ Andromedae has a planetary system with three confirmed planets, 0.71 times, 2.11 times, and 4.61 times the mass of Jupiter.
Notable deep sky objects
The most famous deep sky object in Andromeda is M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, the most distant object visible to the naked eye. It is an enormous spiral galaxy much like ours. To find the galaxy, draw a line between β and μ Andromedae, and extend the line approximately the same distance again from μ.
Mythology
Andromeda was a princess condemned to be sacrificed to a sea monster; she was rescued by the hero Perseus. See Andromeda for the full account of the myth. Such figures from the myth as her mother and father, Cassiopeia and Cepheus, Perseus and his winged horse Pegasus, and the sea monster Cetus are all commemorated by nearby constellations.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Andromeda (constellation)."
Synonym: AndromedaSynonym: lily-of-the-valley tree (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Andromeda |
| English words defined with "andromeda": marsh rosemary ♦ Pegasus, Perseus ♦ the Triangle, Triangulum ♦ Wild rosemary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "andromeda": And, Andr. ♦ Charles Messier ♦ Hesione, hill peat ♦ Pistris, Pistrix, Pristis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Andromeda" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (Andromeda). |
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Screenplays | On the starship Andromeda, hope lives again (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) On the starship Andromeda hope lives again (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) I am Dylan Hunt, captain of the Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A come Andromeda (1972) The Andromeda Strain (1971) A for Andromeda (1961) Battle Force: Andromeda (2003) Andromeda (2000) | |
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 | Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together ... Credit: NASA. |  | The Democratic Andromeda and her Perseus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Star map with constellations of Andromeda, Perseus, and Triangulum. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Andromeda" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Andromeda" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
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Expressions using "andromeda": andromeda glaucophylla ♦ Andromeda Mariana ♦ andromeda nebula ♦ Andromeda polifolia ♦ genus Andromeda ♦ japanese andromeda ♦ marsh andromeda ♦ mountain andromeda ♦ privet andromeda ♦ swamp andromeda. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "andromeda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | Andromeda. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Andromedo. (various references) | |
Greek | ανδρομέδα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Androméda. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アンドロメダ座 , アンデス山脈 (ampersand sign, and, Andes, android, antonym, entree, entrepreneurship, independents, undead, undo). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アンドロメダざ, アンドロメダ . (various references) | |
Manx | Yn Ven Gheulit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andromedaay.(various references) | |
Russian | андромеда. (various references) | |
Spanish | andrómeda. (various references) | |
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Words beginning with "andromeda": andromedas. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "andromeda" (pronounced andrÄ"mudu) |
| 3 | -u d u | Candida. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-m-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: adenoma, adorned, deodara, madrona, madrone, monarda. | |
-3 letters: adored, anadem, daemon, damned, damner, dander, darned, demand, deodar, droned, enamor, madden, madder, maenad, moaned, moaner, modern, nodder, normed, radome, random, remand, roamed, rodman, rodmen. | |
-4 letters: adder, adman, admen, adore, adorn, amend, anear, anode, arena, armed, aroma, daman, damar, dared, demon, denar, derma, domed, drama, dread. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: andromedas. | |
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