Aquariusn.
/əˈkwɛːrɪəs/, U.S. /əˈkwɛriəs/ Astronomy.
1. One of the zodiacal constellations, giving its name to the eleventh sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters on the 21st of January.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Aquarius
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. x. 472 Þat signe Aquarius is þe boteler of goddes and ȝeuyþ hem a watirpotte.
c1400 Epiph. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 102 When in Aquarye Phebus schad hys lyght.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. i. 141 In Aquary you see the ☌ brings Rain.
1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xii. 287 The Water-can of Aquarius.
2. Astrology. A person born under the sign of Aquarius. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Aquarius > person born under
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1894 ‘E. Kirk’ Influence of Zodiac xiii. 98 Aquarius people are remarkable spiritual healers.
1958 20th Cent. Aug. 153 A horoscope..tells Emma that this week, if her man is an Aquarius..‘Be patient and subtle’; if he is an Aries, ‘..guide his enthusiasm..’ and if a Capricorn, ‘Use a little diplomacy.’
1979 D. Edmands & A. Edmands Child Signs ii. 135 Your Aquarius child may not give a fig about who's at the top of the heap.
1979 D. Edmands & A. Edmands Child Signs ii. 136 Your Aquarius may embarrass you.
1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Mar. vi. 82/4 ‘That has to do,’ she says, ‘with growing up freely, and being an Aquarius.’
3. Age of Aquarius n. an astrological age characterized by world freedom and brotherhood, which is said to have begun during the 1960s; also used as a symbol of freedom or permissiveness.
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Age of Aquarius1967
1940 R. Gleadow Astrol. in Everyday Life i. xi. 144 The future is always associated in astrological circles with the so-called ‘Aquarian Age’.
1961 J. B. Priestley Saturn over Water xix. 282 We are moving now, for we're at the end of an age, from Pisces to Aquarius, from the Fish to the Water.]
1967 Ragni & ‘Rado’ Aquarius (1968) (song) 3 This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
1970 Time 6 July 6 Evangelist Billy Graham..fingered his collar-length silver-blond curls and gave his blessing to the Age of Aquarius.
1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone ii. 52 Cutter moved on without a backward look, slipping easily into the mid-sixties, that golden age of cant, of bare feet and acid and Aquarius.
1985 Christian Sci. Monitor 26 Aug. 21/2 Beattie's six books..have been greeted as graceful if facile bulletins about the survivors of the Age of Aquarius.
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