Vulcan

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, principally blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.
• A hypothetical planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun in a 19th-century hypothesis.
• volcano Papua New Guinea (country).
• inactive volcano New Mexico (state).
• A placename.
• An inhabited planet, the homeworld of the Vulcan species.
• A language constructed for the Star Trek franchise, spoken by the fictional Vulcan species.

Noun

• An inhabitant of the planet Vulcan.
• A person who, like the fictional Vulcans, seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.
• The Avro Vulcan, a type of jet-powered British bomber aircraft built by Avro during the Cold War.

Related

Similar words

• Spock

Origin

• From Latin Vulcānus, of Etruscan origin, but unknown meaning. volcano.
• From Vulcan (etymology 1), from the Star Trek TV series of the 1960s.
• From Vulcan (etymology 1)