Galatea

Proper Noun

• Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.
• Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.
• Galatea; name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion.
• A moon of Neptune.
• 74 Galatea, a main belt asteroid.
• settlement in the Bay of Plenty (region) New Zealand (country), named after HMS Galatea.