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ptolemy   (TTS Sound)

The noun ptolemy has 2 senses

• Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus -- (Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance)


• Ptolemy, Ptolemaic dynasty -- (an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra)