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VESPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A late afternoon or evening worship service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("vesper" is a kind of...):
divine service; religious service; service (the act of public worship following prescribed rules)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vesper"):
placebo ((Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
Synonyms:
evening star; Hesperus; Vesper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
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)
