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CELESTIAL BODY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Natural objects visible in the sky
Synonyms:
celestial body; heavenly body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("celestial body" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Domain member category:
scintillate; twinkle; winkle (emit or reflect light in a flickering manner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "celestial body"):
minor planet; planetoid (any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun)
major planet; planet ((astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction)
planet (any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star)
planetesimal (one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system)
primary ((astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it)
quasar; quasi-stellar radio source (a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts)
satellite (any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star)
star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)
star (any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night)
Holonyms ("celestial body" is a part of...):
cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world (everything that exists anywhere)
