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Gemini   /dʒˈɛmənˌaɪ/  /dʒˈɛmənˌi/   Listen
Gemini

noun
1.
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini.  Synonym: Twin.
2.
A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic.
3.
The third sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about May 21 to June 20.  Synonyms: Gemini the Twins, Twins.



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"Gemini" Quotes from Famous Books



... but be that some gems shall scintillate more than others, or, at all events, be of coarser and duller water. With conscious impartiality, and without imputing the palm of slang to any particular individual, I shall give the precedence to Gemini, and their last approved duodecimo. Messrs Taylor and Smith have bestowed upon the public three dramas—to wit, Valentine and Orson, Whittington and his Cat, and Cinderella. I have not been fortunate ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various

... the Mysteries of the Cabiri or great Gods, a representation was given of the death of one of them. This name was given to the Sun, because the Ancient Astronomers gave the name of Gods Cabiri and of Samothrace to the two Gods in the Constellation Gemini; whom others term Apollo and Hercules, two names of the Sun. Athenion says that the young Cabirus so slain was the same as the Dionusos or Bakchos of the Greeks. The Pelasgi, ancient inhabitants of Greece, and who settled Samothrace, ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... good grief! Holy cow! My word! Holy shit![vulg.], gad so! welladay[obs3]! dear me! only think! lackadaisy[obs3]! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens[obs3]! O gemini! adzooks[obs3]! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it! &c. (inexpectation) 508[obs3]; you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons[Fr]! ...
— Roget's Thesaurus • Peter Mark Roget

... there of my having a certificate of my cuckledom from the notary? So! so! you trollop! I find you with a man in spite of all my remonstrances, and you want to send me from Gemini to Capricornus. ...
— The Jealousy of le Barbouille - (La Jalousie du Barbouille) • Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere

... middle-aged man sitting under the trees to hear the birds sing; and Gemini above, a bridegroom and bride. This quatrefoil joins the interior angle ones ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... hast proved thyself the magician, and I but a poor wretch in comparison,—for lo! thou art rich and honoured, and I poor and proscribed. Deign to forgive thine enemy, and take him as thy slave by right of conquest. Oh, Cogsbones! oh, Gemini! what a jewel thou ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... "Gemini, Madam! We can't all be ladies of quality; and if we could, I see not who could provide the wants and amusements of the fashionable. To be plain with ...
— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington



Words linked to "Gemini" :   twins, Pollux, Gemini program, individual, astrology, twin, star sign, someone, star divination, constellation, person, somebody, mansion, mortal, castor, Gemini the Twins, sign, zodiac, soul, house, planetary house, Alpha Geminorum, sign of the zodiac



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