What is the meaning of Orion?

noun

  • Greek mythology. ( a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation)
  • A constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel.
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