Thesaurus: vesta

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1. n. One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
2. n. An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
3. n. A wax friction match.
4. 1. (Rom. Myth.) One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it. 2. (Astron.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807. 3. A wax friction match. Simmonds.
5. One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identicalwith the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of thehearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
6. n. (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia n. the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered