Planet

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 288:
 * The moon . . . began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
 * 1) Any of various rocky or gaseous spherical bodies orbiting the Sun, specifically the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (The Galilean moons, four major asteroids, and the dwarf planet Pluto were formerly included, in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries respectively.)
 * 2)  Any similar spherically shaped or tidally elongated body in orbit around a star or binary star which has cleared the debris out of its orbital path, but which has not attained nuclear fusion.

Derived terms

 * carbon planet
 * carbide planet
 * diamond planet
 * dual planet
 * dwarf planet
 * exoplanet
 * extrasolar planet
 * free-floating planet
 * gas giant planet
 * giant planet
 * ice giant planet
 * interstellar planet
 * inner planet
 * major planet
 * mesoplanet
 * minor planet
 * outer planet


 * Planet Earth
 * planemo
 * planetar
 * planetary-mass object
 * planetary
 * planetarium
 * planetesimal
 * planetoid
 * silicate planet
 * silicon planet
 * superplanet
 * supergiant planet
 * terrestrial planet
 * water planet

Related terms

 * gas giant
 * ice giant
 * sub-brown dwarf

Adjectives for Planet
leaden; populous; wheeling; sin-ridden; vexatious; bawdy; glorious; household; ill; sleepy; turbulent; beautious; virginal; glittering; bruised; influential; perturbed; riming; dead; many-mortalled; spinning; sunless; careering.

Thesaurus
Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Venus, asteroid, globe, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer, world

Etymology
From planeta:, planetes: <  πλανήτης: variant of πλάνης:.

Translations

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 * Bengali: গ্রহ
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 * Ido: planeto
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 * Japanese: 惑星 (わくせい, wakusei)
 * Korean:, 유성
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 * Romansch: planet
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 * Telugu: గ్రహము (grahamu)
 * Thai: (dāw-nop-khroh)
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 * Bengali: গ্রহ
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 * Gujarati: ગ્રહ
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: planeto
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 惑星 (わくせい, wakusei)
 * Karakalpak:
 * Korean:, 유성
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: planeta
 * Luxembourgish: Planéit
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 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: planet
 * Russian:
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 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: గ్రహము (grahamu)
 * Thai: (dāw-nop-khroh)
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 * Ukrainian:
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 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bengali: গ্রহ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 行星 (xíngxīng)
 * Croatian:
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 * Gujarati: ગ્રહ
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian: ,
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 * Ido: planeto
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 惑星 (わくせい, wakusei)
 * Korean:, 위성
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: planeta
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romansch: planet
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: గ్రహము (grahamu)
 * Thai: (dāw-nop-khroh)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * West Frisian:


 * : planeta
 * : planeta
 * : planedenn
 * : plânête
 * : Ancient: πλάνης (plánēs)
 * : hōkū hele, hōkū ‘ae‘a, hōkū lewa
 * : כּוֹכַב לֶכֶת (kokhav lekhet)
 * : ग्रह (grah)
 * : planet
 * : planeta


 * : stella errans, planeta
 * : planeta
 * : Planéit
 * : ഗ്രഹം (graham) 1,2
 * : pjaneta
 * : гариг (garig)
 * : chianéta
 * : (siyāreh),  (kore),  (abâxtar)
 * : ਗ੍ਰਹਿ
 * : planetă
 * Cyrillic: планета
 * Roman: planeta
 * Cyrillic: планета
 * Roman: planeta


 * : (girahu)
 * : planet
 * : (siyārah)
 * : planet
 * : unozungezilanga
 * : planed

Anagrams

 * pental
 * platen

Noun

 * 1) a planet

Etymology
From planéta:.

Noun

 * 1) planet

Alternative forms

 * planéta

Noun

 * 1)  planet

Derived terms

 * planetáren
 * ínterplanetáren
 * mèdplanetáren
 * planéten
 * mèdplanéten

Noun

 * 1)  planet