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Hesperus

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Hesperus /ˈhɛspərəs/

▶noun literary the planet Venus.

– origin L., from Gk hesperos ‘western’, (as n.) ‘the evening star’.

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