URSA MAJOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ursa Major mean? 

• URSA MAJOR (noun)
  The noun URSA MAJOR has 1 sense:

1. a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URSA MAJOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Great Bear; Ursa Major

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Ursa Major"):

Big Dipper; Charles's Wain; Dipper; Plough; Wagon; Wain (a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major)

 Context examples 

The younger men quiz him, it seems, call him Old Fritz, Lager Beer, Ursa Major, and make all manner of jokes on his name.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)