planète

Definitions of planète
  1. noun
    (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
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    examples:
    étoile du soir
    a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
    monde
    the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
    types:
    étoile du matin
    a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky
    type of:
    astre
    natural objects visible in the sky
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