A cost-effective way to explore the Solar System was to send thousands of robotic probes to scour celestial bodies for data.
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Celestial
//səˈlɛs.t͡ʃəl//
Synonyms for "celestial" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
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Synonyms
6 entriesderived
33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
derived from
2 entrieshas context
4 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
117 translations across 57 languages.
Albanian
4 entries- hyjnor adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- hyjnore adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- qiellor adj (relating to sky)
- qiellore adj (relating to sky)
Arabic
2 entries- سَمَاوِيّ adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- سَمَاوِيّ adj (relating to sky)
Armenian
2 entries- երկնային adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- երկնային adj (relating to sky)
Belarusian
3 entries- нябе́сны adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- нябе́сны adj (relating to sky)
- сла́ўны adj (of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.)
Bikol Central
1 entries- langitnon adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Bulgarian
3 entries- небе́сен adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- небе́сен adj (relating to sky)
- сла́вен adj (of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.)
Catalan
2 entries- celeste adj (relating to sky)
- celestial adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ئاسمانی adj (relating to sky)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 天國的 /天国的 adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- 天的 adj (relating to sky)
- 天空的 adj (relating to sky)
Czech
2 entries- nebeský adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- nebeský adj (relating to sky)
Danish
1 entries- himmelsk adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Dutch
2 entries- hemels adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- hemels adj (relating to sky)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉiela adj (relating to sky)
Faroese
1 entries- himmalskur adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Finnish
3 entries- taivaallinen adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- taivas adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- taivas adj (relating to sky)
French
2 entries- céleste adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- céleste adj (relating to sky)
Galician
1 entries- celestial adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Georgian
2 entries- ზეციური adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- ციური adj (relating to sky)
German
2 entries- Himmels adj (relating to sky)
- himmlisch adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Greek
1 entries- ουράνιος adj (relating to sky)
Gujarati
1 entries- આકાશીય adj (relating to sky)
Hebrew
3 entries- שְׁמֵימִי adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- שְׁמֵימִי adj (relating to sky)
- שמימית adj (relating to sky)
Hindi
3 entries- आकाशीय adj (relating to sky)
- आसमानी adj (relating to sky)
- स्वर्गीय adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Hungarian
2 entries- mennyei adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- égi adj (relating to sky)
Ido
1 entries- cielala adj (relating to sky)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- آسْمانی adj (relating to sky)
- سَماوی adj (relating to sky)
Irish
2 entries- neamhaí adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- spéartha adj (relating to sky)
Istriot
2 entries- cialieste adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- cialieste adj (relating to sky)
Italian
2 entries- celeste adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- celeste adj (relating to sky)
Japanese
3 entries- 天国の adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- 天空の adj (relating to sky)
- 空の adj (relating to sky)
Korean
2 entries- 천국의 adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- 하늘의 adj (relating to sky)
Latin
2 entries- caelestis adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- caelestis adj (relating to sky)
Macedonian
1 entries- небесен adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Malay
4 entries- langit adj (relating to sky)
- samawi adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- samawi adj (relating to sky)
- syurga adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Maltese
2 entries- ċelestjali adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- ċelestjali adj (relating to sky)
Navajo
1 entries- yáʼąąsh adj (relating to sky)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- himmelsk adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Old Occitan
1 entries- celestial adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Polish
2 entries- niebiański adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- niebiański adj (relating to sky)
Portuguese
3 entries- celeste adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- celeste adj (relating to sky)
- celestial adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Punjabi
3 entries- ਅਸਮਾਨੀ adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- ਅਸਮਾਨੀ adj (relating to sky)
- ਅਸਮਾਨੀ adj (relating to sky)
Romanian
2 entries- ceresc adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- ceresc adj (relating to sky)
Russian
3 entries- небе́сный adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- небе́сный adj (relating to sky)
- сла́вный adj (of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.)
Sanskrit
1 entries- दिव्य adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- nebèskī adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- nebèskī adj (relating to sky)
- небѐскӣ adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- небѐскӣ adj (relating to sky)
Slovak
2 entries- nebeský adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- nebeský adj (relating to sky)
Slovene
2 entries- nebesen adj (relating to sky)
- nebeški adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Spanish
3 entries- celeste adj (relating to sky)
- celestial adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- celestial adj (relating to sky)
Swedish
3 entries- himmelsk adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- himmelsk adj (relating to sky)
- himmelsk adj (of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.)
Tagalog
1 entries- makalangit adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Tajik
1 entries- осмонӣ adj (relating to sky)
Turkish
4 entries- kutsal adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- semavi adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- semavi adj (relating to sky)
- tanrısal adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Ukrainian
3 entries- небе́сний adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- небе́сний adj (relating to sky)
- сла́вний adj (of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.)
Urdu
1 entries- آسْمانی adj (relating to sky)
Venetan
2 entries- celeste adj (relating to sky)
- zheleste adj (relating to sky)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thiên đường adj (relating to heaven (religious))
Welsh
2 entries- nefol adj (relating to heaven (religious))
- wybrennol adj (relating to sky)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
It is said that Peng Zu was the grandson of a celestial emperor.
Source: tatoeba (1790830)
According to the IAU, a "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.
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A brown dwarf is a celestial object, in which fusion occurs, but that is not massive enough to fuse hydrogen.
Source: tatoeba (2724310)
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