Usually means: Ancient astronomer, developed geocentric theory.
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  1. ptolemy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Ptolemy: Merriam-Webster
  3. Ptolemy, Ptolemy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Ptolemy, Ptolemy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Ptolemy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Ptolemy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ptolemy: Wordnik
  8. Ptolemy: Wiktionary
  9. Ptolemy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Ptolemy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Ptolemy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ptolemy: Dictionary.com
  13. Ptolemy (King of Thebes), Ptolemy (disambiguation), Ptolemy (general), Ptolemy (gnostic), Ptolemy (name), Ptolemy (somatophylax), Ptolemy (son of Abubus), Ptolemy (son of Philip), Ptolemy (son of Pyrrhus), Ptolemy (son of Seleucus), Ptolemy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ptolemy: Rhymezone
  15. ptolemy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. ptolemy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Ptolemy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ptolemy: Encyclopedia
  2. Ptolemy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ptolemy: Nine Planets Glossary
  4. PTOLEMY: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ptolemy)

noun:  A male given name from Ancient Greek of Greek origin, borne by historical persons in ancient Egypt.
noun:  Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90 – c. 168 AD), a Greek-speaking mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria in Roman Egypt. His most important works were the Almagest and the Geography
noun:  Ptolemy I Soter ("Ptolemy the Savior", 367 BC—283 BC), a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who was the ruler of Egypt (323 B.C.E—283 B.C.E) and founder of the Ptolemaic Empire. In 305 BC he took the role of King.
noun:  The Egyptian ruling dynasty of peoples who held the given name Ptolemy.

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