Diana

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Diana
    n 1: English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince
         Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris
         produced intense national mourning (1961-1997) [syn:
         {Diana}, {Princess Diana}, {Princess of Wales}, {Lady Diana
         Frances Spencer}]
    2: (Roman mythology) virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon;
       counterpart of Greek Artemis

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Diana \Di*a"na\, n. [L. Diana.] (Myth.)
   The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who
   presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified
   with the Greek goddess {Artemis}.
   [1913 Webster]

         And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. --Pope.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Diana monkey} (Zool.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of
      West Africa ({Cercopithecus Diana}).
      [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada
DIANA

   <language> (DIANA) A formerly {de facto standard}
   {intermediate language} for {Ada} programs, developed by Goos
   and Wulf at {CMU} in January 1981.  DIANA is an {attributed
   tree} representation, with an abstract interface defined in
   {Interface Description Language} (Nestor, Lamb and Wulf, CMU,
   1981; Snodgrass(?), 1989(?)).  DIANA resulted from a merger of
   {AIDA} and {TCOL.Ada}.  At the present (2001) it is no longer
   used by the major ADA compilers

   ["DIANA - An Intermediate Language for Ada", G.T. Goos et al,
   LNCS 161, Springer 1983].

   (2001-09-15)

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Diana
so called by the Romans; called Artemis by the Greeks, the
"great" goddess worshipped among heathen nations under various
modifications. Her most noted temple was that at Ephesus. It was
built outside the city walls, and was one of the seven wonders
of the ancient world. "First and last it was the work of 220
years; built of shining marble; 342 feet long by 164 feet broad;
supported by a forest of columns, each 56 feet high; a sacred
museum of masterpieces of sculpture and painting. At the centre,
hidden by curtains, within a gorgeous shrine, stood the very
ancient image of the goddess, on wood or ebony reputed to have
fallen from the sky. Behind the shrine was a treasury, where, as
in 'the safest bank in Asia,' nations and kings stored their
most precious things. The temple as St. Paul saw it subsisted
till A.D. 262, when it was ruined by the Goths" (Acts
19:23-41)., Moule on Ephesians: Introd.

from Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

Diana, luminous, perfect

from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Diana, WV
  Zip code(s): 26217

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

78 Moby Thesaurus words for "Diana":
      Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis,
      Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus,
      Cupid, Cybele, Cynthia, Demeter, Despoina, Dionysus, Dis, Eros,
      Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hecate, Hekate, Helios,
      Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove,
      Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
      Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore,
      Kronos, Luna, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus,
      Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa,
      Persephone, Phoebe, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon,
      Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Selene, Tellus, Venus, Vesta,
      Vulcan, Zeus

from Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date

DIANA

an ancient sportswoman who loved fox hunting, hounds,
and the chase without the conventionalities of a society hunt.
Address:  Ephesus.