planet

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From Latin planeta, planetes < Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planētēs) variant of πλάνης (planēs), wanderer, planet).

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Singular
planet

Plural
planets

planet (plural planets)

  1. (obsolete, except historical or astrology) 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.
    • 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?
  2. (astronomy) 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.)
  3. (astronomy, by extension) Any similar spherically-shaped 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.

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  • First Steps to Astronomy and Geography, 1828, (Hatchard & Son: Piccadilly, London).

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  • IPA: [planɛt]

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planet m. (indefinite plural planete, definite singular planeti, definite plural planetet)

  1. planet

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plànēt m. (Cyrillic spelling пла̀не̄т)

  1. planet

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  • IPA: /plaˈneːt/

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planét m. (dual planeta, plural planeti) inanimate

  1. (astronomy) planet

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Inflection for planet Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Base form planet planeten planeter planeterna
Possessive form planets planetens planeters planeternas

planet c.

  1. (astronomy) planet

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planet

  1. Definite singular of plan.