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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Diana \Di*a"na\, n. [L. Diana.] (Myth.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess {Artemis}. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. --Pope. {Diana monkey} (Zo["o]l.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa ({Cercopithecus Diana}). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Diana n : (Roman mythology) virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon; counterpart of Greek Artemis [syn: {Diana}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Diana, WV Zip code(s): 26217 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: DIANA Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada. A {de facto standard} intermediate language for {Ada} programs, developed by Goos and Wulf at CMU in Jan 1981. DIANA is an {attributed tree} representation, with an abstract interface defined in {Interface Description Language} (Nestor, Lamb and Wulf, CMU, 1981; Snodgrass(?), 1989(?)). DIANA resulted from a merger of {AIDA} and {TCOL.Ada}. ["DIANA - An Intermediate Language for Ada", G.T. Goos et al LNCS 161, Springer 1983]. (1994-11-11) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Diana so called by the Romans; called Artemis by the Greeks, the great" goddess worshipped among heathen nations under various modifications. Her most noted temple was that at Ephesus. It was built outside the city walls, and was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. "First and last it was the work of 220 years; built of shining marble; 342 feet long by 164 feet broad; supported by a forest of columns, each 56 feet high; a sacred museum of masterpieces of sculpture and painting. At the centre, hidden by curtains, within a gorgeous shrine, stood the very ancient image of the goddess, on wood or ebony reputed to have fallen from the sky. Behind the shrine was a treasury, where as in 'the safest bank in Asia,' nations and kings stored their most precious things The temple as St Paul saw it subsisted till A.D. 262, when it was ruined by the Goths" (Acts 19:23-41)., Moule on Ephesians: Introd. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Diana, luminous, perfect
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