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MAJOR PLANET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does major planet mean? 

MAJOR PLANET (noun)
  The noun MAJOR PLANET has 1 sense:

1. (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 directionplay

  Familiarity information: MAJOR PLANET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MAJOR PLANET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

major planet; planet

Hypernyms ("major planet" is a kind of...):

celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)

Meronyms (parts of "major planet"):

biosphere (the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "major planet"):

inferior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit)

gas giant; Jovian planet (any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter))

daystar; Lucifer; morning star; Phosphorus (a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky)

outer planet ((astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto))

superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)

terrestrial planet (a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system)

Instance hyponyms:

evening star; Hesperus; Vesper (a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky)

Holonyms ("major planet" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)


 Context examples 


Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

Usually, I would advise you about which areas of life to direct each aspect’s energy, but when any major planet (and you have two) is conjunct in the first house of personality, you get to choose, for that house rules your deepest desires.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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