Word Meanings - URANIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.

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• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• URANIAN
  Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• URANUS
  The son or husband of Gaia , and father of Chronos and the Titans.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• PLANETARIUM
  An orrery. See Orrery.
• PLANETOID
  A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
• PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
  Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
• PLANETARY
  Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton. 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak. 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life."
• PLANET-STRICKEN; PLANET-STRUCK
  Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.
• TURANIANS
  An extensive division of mankind including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians. A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols.
• INTERPLANETARY
  Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.
• TURANIAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to,
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach