Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CERES

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Definitions of CERES

1. (Roman god) The Roman goddess of agriculture; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter.
2. (astronomy) A celestial body orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, the largest asteroid and innermost dwarf planet; officially called (1) Ceres.
3. A city in Stanislaus County, California, US.
4. plural of cere.

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Examples of Using CERES in a Sentence

• CERES Community Environment Park (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies), a community environmental park in Melbourne, Australia.
• The Ceres Brewery was a beer and soft drink producing facility in Århus, Denmark, that operated from 1856 until 2008.
• The hypothesis correctly anticipated the orbits of Ceres (in the asteroid belt) and Uranus, but failed as a predictor of Neptune's orbit.
• Proserpina replaced or was combined with the ancient Roman fertility goddess Libera, whose principal cult was housed in the Aventine temple of the grain-goddess Ceres, along with the wine god Liber.
• Vesta is thought to be the second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres.
• It is the second asteroid to have been discovered, after Ceres, and is likely a remnant protoplanet.
• About 60% of the main belt mass is contained in the four largest asteroids: Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea.
• These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres.
• She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad, then was paired with her daughter Proserpina in what Romans described as "the Greek rites of Ceres".
• Mercury, the Moon, Ceres, Europa, and Ganymede have surface boundary exospheres, which are exospheres without a denser atmosphere underneath.
• Before his official adoption as a Roman deity, Liber was companion to two different goddesses in two separate, archaic Italian fertility cults; Ceres, an agricultural and fertility goddess of Rome's Hellenised neighbours, and Libera, who was Liber's female equivalent.
• As he attempted to pierce the youth's breast, Ceres turned the king into a lynx, then ordered the youth Athenian to drive the sacred yoke back through the air.
• Given that male authors had limited knowledge of her rites and attributes, ancient speculations about her identity abound, among them that she was an aspect of Terra, Ops, Cybele, or Ceres, or a Latin form of a Greek goddess, "Damia" (perhaps Demeter).
• Early Romans were an agrarian civilization and, functionally, most of their original pantheon of gods — as against the later ones they adapted to Greek stereotypes — were of a rural nature with figures such as Pomona, Ceres, Flora, Dea Dia; so it was apt to have a god supervising the basics of organic fertilization.
• Vacuna was an ancient Sabine goddess, identified by ancient Roman sources and later scholars with numerous other goddesses, including Ceres, Diana, Nike, Minerva, Bellona, Venus and Victoria.
• Ceres is located in the San Joaquin Valley along State Route 99, south of Modesto and north of Turlock in Stanislaus County.
• In 1882, Hiram Hughson arrived in the area east of Ceres and north of Denair, California, purchasing land and eventually owning 5,000 acres.
• The town was named after John Keating, manager and trustee of the Ceres Company, which developed land in the area and sold it to settlers.
• Khalilzad first spent time in the United States as a high school exchange student with AFS Intercultural Programs in Ceres, California.
• Ambarvalia was a Roman agricultural fertility rite, involving animal sacrifices and held on 29 May in honor of Ceres, Bacchus and Dea Dia.
• In May 1809 she was badly damaged during a battle with French gunboats and the French frigate Ceres.
• In his treatise on agriculture, Cato the Elder recommends that farmers sacrifice a sow (porca praecidanea) to Ceres, before the harvest.
• He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and in 1972 was co-founder of the Stonehenge Free Festival, together with Phil Russell aka Wally Hope.
• On January 9, 2005, in Ceres, California, in Stanislaus County, Officer Sam Ryno was the first to respond to a call about a man with a gun in front of George's Liquors.
• In its earliest usage, alma mater was an honorific title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele.

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