heavenly body

Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

heavenly body - natural objects visible in the sky

celestial body

natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man

minor planet, planetoid - any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun

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

planet - any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star

planetesimal - one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system

primary - (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

quasar, quasi-stellar radio source - a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts

satellite - any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

star - (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior

star - any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night

cosmos, macrocosm, universe, world, existence, creation - everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"

winkle, twinkle, scintillate - emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"

Translations

astro

astre

corpo celeste

heavenly body

n (Astron) → corpo celeste

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

References in classic literature ?

The moon being the heavenly body much the nearest to us, of course we see farther into its secrets than into those of any other planet.

View in context

If there's a screw loose in a heavenly body, that's philosophy; and if there's screw loose in a earthly body, that's philosophy too; or it may be that sometimes there's a little metaphysics in it, but that's not often.

View in context

I should keep well within the limit of that early excess now, and should not liken the creation of Shakespeare to the creation of any heavenly body bigger, say, than one of the nameless asteroids that revolve between Mars and Jupiter.

View in context

The "bit of womanhood" was our old acquaintance Bessy Cranage, otherwise Chad's Bess, whose large red cheeks and blowsy person had undergone an exaggeration of colour, which, if she had happened to be a heavenly body, would have made her sublime.

View in context

He must imagine he has a brain like Pluto - the heavenly body, not the cartoon dog, but you have to wonder.

WELL, FANCY THAT

10 out of 10 MIO HEAVENLY BODY RADIANCE SALT SCRUB, PS23 "This makes me look forward to showers.

SCRUB UP WELL; Our beauty team road tests body exfoliastors

For winning in the 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), three Filipino students got bestowed with one of the highest honors in the scientific community - to have a heavenly body named after you.

Pinoy HS students bestowed with honor to have minor planets named after them

Her first film, Heavenly Body (2011), screened at the Directors' Fortnight during Cannes Film Festival, The Wonders (2014) won the Cannes Grand Prix, and her latest film Happy as Lazzaro (2018) won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Qumra 2019 ends with Italian director's talk on role of cinema in bringing people together

As with the many Chrises in superhero movies, Chris Hemsworth has impressed with his heavenly body worthy of Thor, god of thunder.

WATCH: Chris Hemsworth bares ripped abs in 'Men in Black' training video

Diagram showing the Earth-sun-moon geometry of a total solar eclipse -- Photo credit NASA According to NASA, an eclipse takes place when one heavenly body such as a moon or planet moves into the shadow of another heavenly body.

Luxor to witness total solar eclipse in 2027

The paper clarifies what it is for a heavenly body to possess a nature and argues that a body's nature cannot be a final cause unless the natural body possesses capacities that are exercised for the sake of its nature qua form.

Phronesis: Vol. 60, No. 1, 2015

It would be China's first manned mission since September 2008 and the spacecraft would be docking manually with the Tiangong-1 module (Heavenly Body) presently orbiting the earth.