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EVENING STAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evening star mean?
• EVENING STAR (noun)
The noun EVENING STAR has 1 sense:
1. a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
Familiarity information: EVENING STAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
evening star; Hesperus; Vesper
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)
Context examples
In truth, I was occupied by gloomy thoughts and neither saw the descent of the evening star nor the golden sunrise reflected in the Rhine.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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