CELESTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does celestial mean? 

• CELESTIAL (adjective)
  The adjective CELESTIAL has 3 senses:

1. of or relating to the sky

2. relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven

3. of heaven or the spirit

  Familiarity information: CELESTIAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELESTIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the sky

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

celestial; heavenly

Context example:

a heavenly body

Pertainym:

sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

celestial; heavenly

Context example:

heavenly hosts

Pertainym:

Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of heaven or the spirit

Synonyms:

celestial; ethereal; supernal

Context example:

the supernal happiness of a quiet death

Similar:

heavenly (of or belonging to heaven or god)

 Context examples 

Earth-based and a host of space telescopes also observed the unique celestial object.

(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)

If microbes can live in the most extreme regions on Earth, scientists say it is quite possible they can live on other celestial bodies.

(Scientists: Life Can Thrive in Most Extreme Environments, George Putic/VOA)

Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with a substantial atmosphere and the only celestial body other than our planet where stable bodies of surface liquid are known to still exist.

(Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time, NASA)

Even though that is relatively close by celestial standards, it is expected to be fairly faint, so night-sky Earth observers would need at least a small telescope to view it.

(Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They say even though finding such celestial objects are rare, there could be large amounts of such planets in the universe that have yet to be discovered.

(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)

Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me—for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But these celestial dancers are all twirling at different speeds.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

The measured gain in speed is tiny and `Oumuamua is still slowing down because of the pull of the Sun — just not as fast as predicted by celestial mechanics.

(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)

I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The angle between the planes of the celestial equator and the ecliptic, currently the earth has a 23.4 degree obliquity cycle.

(Obliquity, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)