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Ganymede

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Noun

1. ganymede

(Greek mythology) a Trojan boy who was so beautiful that Zeus carried him away to serve as cupbearer to the gods

2. ganymede

the largest of Jupiter's satellites

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ganymede

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noun
classical mythology
a beautiful Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus to Olympus and made the cupbearer of the gods
noun
the brightest and largest of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter, and the largest in the solar system. Diameter: 5262 km; orbital radius: 1 070 000 km

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Ganymede

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noun
1.  Greek Mythology
a beautiful youth carried off by Zeus to be the cupbearer to the gods
2. 
the largest satellite of Jupiter: discovered in 1610 by Galileo

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ganymede

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n.
1. Greek Mythology A Trojan boy of great beauty whom Zeus carried away to be his lover and to be cupbearer to the gods.
2. One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter. Originally sighted by Galileo, it is the largest satellite in the solar system.

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