Usually means: Genus of swans; celestial constellation.
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  1. Cygnus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cygnus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cygnus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cygnus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cygnus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cygnus, cygnus: Wordnik
  7. Cygnus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Cygnus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Cygnus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cygnus: Dictionary.com
  11. Cygnus (bird), Cygnus (constellation), Cygnus (disambiguation), Cygnus (genus), Cygnus (spacecraft), Cygnus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cygnus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cygnus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Cygnus: Rhymezone
  15. Cygnus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cygnus: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cygnus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Cygnus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Cygnus: Merriam-Webster
  20. Cygnus: Wiktionary

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  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. Cygnus (constellation), Cygnus (genus), Cygnus (swan), Cygnus: Encyclopedia

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  1. Cygnus (constellation), Cygnus (genus), Cygnus (swan), Cygnus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CYGNUS: Acronym Finder

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  1. cygnus: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cygnus)

noun:  (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a swan. It includes the triple star system HD 188753 and the stars Deneb and Albireo.
noun:  (Greek mythology) A king of the Ligurians and relative of Phaeton who was transformed into a swan and placed in the sky as a constellation.

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