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planet Definition

planet (plan′it)

noun

  1. Obsolete any of the celestial objects with apparent motion (as distinguished from the apparently still stars), including the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn
  2. now, a large, opaque, nonluminous mass, usually with its own moons, that revolves about a star; esp., one of the sun's nine major planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
  3. Astrol. any celestial body thought of as influencing human lives

Etymology: ME planete < OFr < LL planeta < Gr planētēs, wanderer < planan, to lead astray, wander < IE base *plā-, flat, spread out > plain

planet Synonyms

planet

n.

celestial body, heavenly body, luminous body, wandering star, planetoid, asteroid.

The known planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

planet Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • save: Only you can decide how much you are willing to pay to save the planet.
  • inhabit: We inhabit this planet for a comparatively short time.
  • orbit: While orbiting the planet you notice three strange clusters of rocky debris drawn out into long arcs.
  • destroy: A giant robot ship has wandered into the galaxy and is destroying planets in its path, digesting the debris for fuel.
  • populate: Imagine the day when we finally make it to the stars and find a planet populated by a technologically inferior species.
  • discover: According to Dr. Pollacco, mankind has barely started to discover planets.

Adjective modifier

  • extrasolar: The European Space Agency's infrared space observatory, ISO has shown that the formation of extrasolar planets must be a very common event.
  • earth-like: By Any Other Name Responding to a distress call from an Earth-like planet, a landing party from the Enterprise beams down to investigate.
  • outer: There are five outer planet inter aspects from Jupiter.
  • terrestrial: Understanding Mercury, and the forces that have shaped it, is fundamental to understanding the terrestrial planets and their evolution.
  • lonely: Lonely Planet, Walking in Scotland: Sandra Bardwell ( November 2001 ).
  • extra-solar: The observed mass function, brown dwarfs, extra-solar planets.

Modifies a noun

  • earth: Nowhere else on planet earth can you find such a dazzling array of choices for a theme wedding.
  • guidebook: Runners up will each receive a Lonely Planet guidebook of their choice.
  • orbit: The orbit is inclined nearly 90 degrees from the ecliptic ( the plane of our solar system in which the planets orbit ).
  • X: This so-called Planet X would be a gas ball up to five times the size of Earth, according to some predictions.

Noun used with modifier

  • intruder: It does not describe Marduk as an intruder planet.

Preposition: in

  • orbit: There was a class of large planets in tight, circular orbits.

Preposition: of

  • apes: The next film in the series was " Beneath The Planet Of The Apes " .
  • ape: Of all the films, I really enjoy the ones that take place on the " planet of the apes " .
planet Quotes

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say '.'

—Burroughs,William S(eward)

The only trulyalien planet is Earth.

—Ballard,J(ames) G(raham)

As the planet globalizes, groups tribalize.

—Ogden, Frank also known as  'DrTomorrow'

   or we may hold them in respect and affection as fellow creepers on a commodious planet saying,'Yes you too you too are people'.

—Sandburg, Carl

People are getting to be a disgrace to the planet.

—Stone, Robert Anthony

The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneöits ideologies and inventionsöwhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

—Sontag, Susan

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

—Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop

Given the state of the planet, humans, or some humans, must now be categorized as vermin.

—Carey,John

Ripeness is all; her in her cooling planet Revere; do not presume to think her wasted.

—Empson, Sir William

  All this will not be finished in the first100 days, nor will it be finished in the first1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administrationönor even, perhaps, in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the by-laws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July1969.We came in peace for all mankind.

—Anonymous

When I first heard Charlie Parker, I said,'That's how our music should be played.'† After we got it together, yeah, I knew we were making something new. It was magic. Nobody on the planet was playing like that but us.

—Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks)

Out of the Silent Planet.

—Lewis, C(live) S(taples)

Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; Maud And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

—Tennyson

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacificöand all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmiseö Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

—Keats,John

Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate.

—Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose

I never give out my zodiac sign. Do you honestly think I can be pushed around by a planet? Good heavens, your divine nature is always free.

—Peace Pilgrim real name Mildred Norman

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

—Marlowe, Christopher