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| Main Entry: |
planet
 [plan-it] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celestial body orbiting a star |
| Synonyms: | apple, asteroid, earth, globe, heavenly body, luminous body, marble, orb*, planetoid, sphere, terrene, wandering star, world |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | globe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Earth, sphere |
| Synonyms: | apple, ball, balloon, big blue marble, map, orb, planet, rondure, round, spheroid, terrene, world |
| Main Entry: | sphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | globular object |
| Synonyms: | Earth, apple, ball, big blue marble, circle, globe, globule, orb, pellet, pill, planet, rondure, round |
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Example Sentences
- For the first time a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet has spied--and photographed--some of its kin.
- But if an object is orbiting another, much larger object that's not a star, it wouldn't count as a planet either.
- For the first time, astronomers have seen the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.
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