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CELESTIAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of heaven or the spirit
Example:
the supernal happiness of a quiet death
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
heavenly (of or belonging to heaven or god)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
Example:
heavenly hosts
Synonyms:
celestial; heavenly
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to the sky
Example:
a heavenly body
Synonyms:
celestial; heavenly
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)
Context examples:
The apparent path of the sun on the celestial sphere, also used for the plane in which the motion of the earth around the sun takes place.
(Ecliptic, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
InSight's two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the Moon, formed.
(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)
The great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles (the projection of the north and south pole onto the celestial sphere).
(Celestial equator, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Rarely have you been so loved by the universe, and you deserve every bit of this celestial affection.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
While this celestial object does not appear to pose any threat to Earth or satellites, its close approach creates a unique opportunity for researchers to observe and learn more about asteroids.
(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)
They spend the greatest part of their lives in observing the celestial bodies, which they do by the assistance of glasses, far excelling ours in goodness.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There was something celestial about it, and it came from other worlds.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
These distortions actually shift the position of Earth and the pulsars ever so slightly, resulting in a characteristic and detectable signal from the array of celestial lighthouses.
(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)
A murmur, partly of gratification at Twenty Seven's celestial state of mind, and partly of indignation against the Contractor who had given him any cause of complaint (a note of which was immediately made by Mr. Creakle), having subsided, Twenty Seven stood in the midst of us, as if he felt himself the principal object of merit in a highly meritorious museum.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Either of two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic; either of the two times each year when the sun crosses the equator, and day and night are of equal length (spring equinox, fall equinox).
(Equinox, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
