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US
/ˌɡæɫəˈtiə/
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[ UK /ɡælˈeɪtiə/ ]
[ UK /ɡælˈeɪtiə/ ]
NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers
How To Use Galatea In A Sentence
- A Galatea figure, she is crafted by a metalworker to be the perfect wife, and then discarded because she is too cold. MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction?
- They became T. carolinae, distinct from T. galatea in having a blue breast instead of a white breast, as well as legs and feet of bright yellow. The Song of The Dodo
- Tanysiptera galatea, the common paradise-kingfisher, is an arresting bird with the unmistakably huge head and the trowel-like beak characteristic of kingfishers generally. The Song of The Dodo
- T. galatea itself occupied New Guinea proper, having diversified there into only three subspecies, despite the great heterogeneity of available habitats. The Song of The Dodo
- She sometimes fantasized about getting him to make love to her, but Galatea never really liked her godlike creator, Pygmalion.
- Osama's Galatea is a sculpture whose ivory is an eschatology and exegesis plated with a Salafi-Wahhabi interpretation of Islam.
- During his own early fieldwork in that part of the world, Mayr had studied the distribution of T. galatea and its allied species. The Song of The Dodo
- Mixed with the Maoris were the sailors of the 'Galatea,' rolling about the streets, and, like them, frequent customers of the public-houses. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
- It can be purchased by the yard and it's of galatea which is cheap. How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl
- Nay, but when, their duty done, they shall lie at last in their Ausonian haven, from all that have outgone the waves and borne their Dardanian captain to the fields of Laurentum, will I take their mortal body, and bid them be goddesses of the mighty deep, even as Doto the Nereïd and Galatea, when they cut the sea that falls away from their breasts in foam. ' The Aeneid of Virgil