JANUS meaning: Two-faced, dual natured or contradictory

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word JANUS:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

Janus: Merriam-Webster
Janus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Janus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Janus: Collins English Dictionary
Janus: Vocabulary.com
Janus, janus: Wordnik
Janus: Wiktionary
Janus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Janus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Janus: Infoplease Dictionary
Janus: Dictionary.com
Janus: Online Etymology Dictionary
Janus (American band), Janus (DRM), Janus (Marvel Comics), Janus (TV series), Janus (album), Janus (comics), Janus (disambiguation), Janus (god), Janus (journal), Janus (moon), Janus (musical project), Janus (mythology), Janus (play), Janus (protocol), Janus (science fiction magazine), Janus (surname), Janus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Janus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
janus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Janus: Rhymezone
Janus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
JANUS, Janus: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
janus: FreeDictionary.org
janus: Mnemonic Dictionary
Janus: TheFreeDictionary.com
janus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Janus: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)

An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Janus: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Janus (disambiguation), Janus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

JANUS: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Janus: Extragalactic Astronomy
JANUS: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Janus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Janus)

▸ noun:  (Roman mythology) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.
▸ noun:  (attributively) Used to indicate things with two faces (such as animals with diprosopus) or aspects; or made of two different materials; or having a two-way action.
▸ noun:  (chemistry, attributively) Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
▸ noun:  A moon of Saturn.

Similar:

Ianus, Juturna, Diuturna, Jove, Jupiter, Jaya, Vejovis, Japetus, Urius, door god, more...

Opposite:

unicus, monoface, monolithic

Types:

two-faced, double-crossing, deceitful, untrustworthy, treacherous, more...

Phrases:

janus green, Janus kinase, janus kinases, janus faced, janus headed, more...

Adjectives:

faced, headed, roman, old, very, double, modern, hearted, anti, ancient, female

Colors:

silver, gold, bronze, black, white, more...