Apollo

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.
• The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.
• Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.
• A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.
• Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
• The butterfly Parnassius apollo (species), a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings.
• A very handsome young man.
• A male given name
• A placename.

Noun

• An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.

Related

Opposite words

• Hermes

Origin

• From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων.
• From the object 1862 Apollo.