INANNA

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• INANNA (noun)
  The noun INANNA has 1 sense:

1. consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz)

  Familiarity information: INANNA used as a noun is very rare.

• INANNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)

 Context examples 

Cutting diagonally across the mottled plans is the long extensional fault of Inanna Fossa, which stretches eastward 370 miles (600 kilometers) from here to the western edge of the great nitrogen ice plains of Sputnik Planum.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)