Cerean
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Adjective
Cerean (not comparable)
- pertaining to Ceres
- 1892 (2007), Charles Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains, p. 233
- Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself.
- 1994 (2001), Hayford Peirce, "Six Million Solid Gold Belter Buckles", Jonathan White: Stockbroker in Orbit, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 45
- Bouncing is something to be avoided in the low Cerean gravity: any bouncing here would have lifted me up against the café's green and white striped awning — and maybe on through it to interface violently with the 60 meters of carbonaceous chondrite rock that separate Clarkeville from the surface.
- 1892 (2007), Charles Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains, p. 233
Noun
Cerean (plural Cereans)
- A native or inhabitant of Ceres
- 1953, Isaac Asimov, Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids:
- "When they left, the men of Ceres counted their casualties. Fifteen Cereans were dead and many more hurt in one way or another, as against the bodies of five pirates."
- 1988, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction: the Gernsback years, Kent State University Press, page 374
- "Traveling by etheric-magnetic means, the comrades soon reached Ceres, where they find a couple of corpses, but no living Cereans."