Word Meanings - CONSTELLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.

Additional info about word: CONSTELLATION

1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Sir J. Herschel. Note: In each of the constellations now recognized by astronomers the brightest stars, both named and unnamed are designated nearly in the order of brilliancy by the letters of the Greek alphabet; as, 2. An assemblage of splendors or excellences. The constellations of genius had already begun to show itself . . . which was to shed a glory over the meridian and close of Philip's reign. Prescott. 3. Fortune; fate; destiny. It is constellation, which causeth all that a man doeth. Gower.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSTELLATION)

• Bevy
• Assembly
• parterre
• galaxy
• constellation
• nock

Related words: (words related to CONSTELLATION)

• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• GALAXY
  The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used
• CONSTELLATION
  1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
• PARTERRE
  An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. 2. The pit of a theater; the parquet.
• ASSEMBLYMAN
  A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
• SUBCONSTELLATION
  A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.
• AGALACTIA; AGALAXY
  Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.
• WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
  See ASSEMBLY