Definitions for Cepheus

Cepheus Ce·phe·us

Spelling: [see-fee-uh s, -fyoos]
IPA: /ˈsi fi əs, -fyus/

Cepheus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in Cepheus (ceehpsu).

Definitions for Cepheus

noun

  1. Astronomy. a northern circumpolar constellation between Cassiopeia and Draco.
  2. Also, Kepheus. Classical Mythology. an Ethiopian king, the husband of Cassiopeia and father of Andromeda.

Examples for Cepheus

Cepheus is characterized by a rude square, one side of which is the base of an isosceles triangle.

And when they died, the ancients say, Athené took them up into the sky, with Cepheus and Cassiopoeia.

It is claimed that Cepheus was known to the Chaldæans twenty-three centuries before our era.

Cetus, you will recall, represents the sea-monster sent to devour Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia.

There are a good many stars common to the Lesser Bear and to Cepheus.

Curious to say neither the Dragon nor Cepheus appears on the old Egyptian sphere.

Cepheus is there too, but he p. 41is smaller, and less easy to find.

Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and of Cassiope.

Farther on is the Bird, whose right wing grazes the head and sceptre of Cepheus, with its left resting over Cassiopea.

He asked her hand as his only reward, which Cepheus readily promised.

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