What is the meaning of Demeter?

Demeter is either masculine or feminine given name
  • Hungarian: Hungarian form of Demetrius
  • Greek: Earth-lover. Demeter is the mythological Greek Goddess of corn and harvest. She withdraws for the part of the year her daughter Persephone must spend with the God of the underworld - the reason for winter
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