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    CELESTIAL BODY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Natural objects visible in the skyplay

    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)

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