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planet
CEFRA2
/ˈplænɪt/
noun
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In plain English
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noun
A large round object that travels around a star.
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noun
Extra detailA body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; speci...
Examples
Nuclear war will bring life on this planet to an end.
The planet Jupiter may have no solid surface at all.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
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- Parts of speech
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- Citations
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- Synonyms
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Also pronounced
- [ˈpʰlɛən.ɪt]
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAny body that orbits the Sun, including the asteroids (as minor planets) and sometimes the moons of those bodies (as satellite planets)
Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
construed with the or this: The Earth.
More examples
In contextWhen I was your age, Pluto was a planet.
Be they not dreames of humane vanity,[…]to make of our knowne earth a bright shining planet [translating astre]?
Another of Boehme's followers, the Welshman Morgan Llwyd, also believed that the seven planets could be found within man.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”) (itself an ellipsis of ἀστέρες πλανῆται (astéres planêtai, “wandering stars”)), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “wander about, stray”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin pālor (“wander about, stray”), Old Norse flana (“to rush about”), and Norwegian flanta (“to wander about”). More at flaunt. So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of πλάνης (plán...