VEGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vega mean? 

• VEGA (noun)
  The noun VEGA has 2 senses:

1. prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635)

2. the brightest star in the constellation Lyra

  Familiarity information: VEGA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lope de Vega; Lope Felix de Vega Carpio; Vega

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The brightest star in the constellation Lyra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

binary; binary star; double star (a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation)

Holonyms ("Vega" is a member of...):

Lyra (a small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco; contains the star Vega)

 Context examples 

Preliminary orbital calculations suggested that the object had come from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, in the northern constellation of Lyra.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)

Scientists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), who led an international research team in the study, created a synthetic version of a hydrogen-containing mineral known as whitlockite.

(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Within Pluto’s informally named Vega Terra region is a field of eye-catching craters that looks like a cluster of bright halos scattered across a dark landscape.

(Pluto’s ‘Halo’ Craters, NASA)

The southern portion of the left inset above shows the cratered plateau uplands informally named Vega Terra.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)

Thursday night, "Alien Stock" was held in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada with involvement of original poster Matty Roberts.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

However, even travelling at a breakneck speed of about 95 000 kilometres/hour, it took so long for the interstellar object to make the journey to our Solar System that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there about 300 000 years ago.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)