Associations to the word «Ishtar»

Wiktionary

ISHTAR, proper noun. A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.

Dictionary definition

ISHTAR, noun. Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats