• French: Cérès

Ceres commonly refers to either:

• Ceres (dwarf planet), smallest of the three identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid.
• Ceres (mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture.

Ceres may also refer to:

Places

United States

• Ceres, California
• Ceres, Georgia
• Ceres, Iowa
• Ceres, New York
• Ceres, Oklahoma
• Ceres, Virginia
• Ceres, Washington
• Ceres, West Virginia

Other countries

• Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina
• Ceres, Victoria, Australia
• Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
• Ceres (TO), Italy
• Ceres, Fife, Scotland
• Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa

Businesses

• Ceres Brewery, a brewery in Aarhus, Denmark
• Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises, a Greek shipping company
• Ceres (organization), a coalition of investors and environmentalists (formerly the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies)
• Ceres Fruit Juices, the South African juice company
• Ceres, Inc., the developer of energy crops
• Ceres Liner, a bus company in the Philippines
• Ceres (software), an agricultural software from Belgium
• Ceres (truck) (세레스), a light truck produced by Kia Motors in the 1980s and 1990s.

In fiction

• Ceres, Celestial Legend (Ayashi no Ceres), an anime/manga work. The main character Aya is descended from a celestial Goddess named Ceres.
• CereCere, a character in the anime TV series Sailor Moon
• Seras Victoria, a character in the anime/manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is "Ceres"
• Ceres Space Colony, from the video game Super Metroid.
• Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres, one of the identities of Gulliver Foyle, in the Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
• The Ceres Ocean, located between the continents of Osea and Verusea in the alternate Earth of the Ace Combat video game series.

Other uses

• the plural of cere, a structure at the base of some bird's beaks.
• Ceres (workstation), a computer workstation
• Ceres series, a series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
• HMS Ceres, three ships of the British Royal Navy
• Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive

Acronyms

• CERES Community Environment Park (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies), a community environmental park in Melbourne, Australia
• Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, an on-going NASA meteorological experiment, part of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program

See also

• Cereal
• Seris
• Series

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