apollo

UK /əˈpɒləʊ/ US /əˈpɑloʊ/

name 5noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

advanced, all, constant, large, same

The Apollo program achieved the same ambitious goal of landing humans on the moon.

VERB + APOLLO

came, get, like, named, offered, part, stand

We named our dog Apollo because he was golden and beautiful.

APOLLO + NOUN

america's, astronauts, death, mission, nasa, ortygia's, people, shrine

NASA's Apollo mission to the moon remains one of humanity's greatest achievements.

PREP.

down, from, in, in, on, out

The spacecraft descended down from Apollo 11 with two astronauts aboard.

ADV.

greatly, once, successfully

The mission to repair the satellite once Apollo reached its designated orbit successfully.

Definitions

noun

A very handsome young man.

Any of several papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius, especially Parnassius apollo of Eurasia (also known as the mountain apollo).

name

The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.

‘Blue are the hills that are far away,’ is an owercome in the countryside, and while at first on his side it may have been but a young man’s fancy, to her he was like the god Apollo descending from the skies.

The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.

Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.

A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.

Apollo 11 landed people on the moon for the first time.

Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.

noun

An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.

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Synonyms

noun — (Greek mythology) Greek god of light

phoebus

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Wiktionary

Apollo 11 landed people on the moon for the first time.

Wiktionary

After that, children in school said you could get Apollo, a form of conjunctivitis, by staring at an eclipse too long.

Wiktionary

The Apollo program greatly advanced our knowledge of space.

Tatoeba · #67743

A report came in that Apollo 11 succeeded in landing on the moon.

Tatoeba · #67744

On the same day, Apollo 11 succeeded in landing on the moon's surface.

Tatoeba · #327877

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