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Heavenly body   /hˈɛvənli bˈɑdi/   Listen
Heavenly body

noun
1.
Natural objects visible in the sky.  Synonym: celestial body.






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"Heavenly body" Quotes from Famous Books



... after a few days' coy inspection of our planet from different points of view, they fly to other remote parts of the universe, and do not condescend to show themselves again for a hundred years or so. Such is the erratic conduct of a heavenly body whose course is regulated by a ...
— The Romance of Mathematics • P. Hampson

... past seven years have worked their will with it.... They tell me that one of its branches lies broken on the ground, that its stem is split from end to end. But it is there—there still, abandoned now and alone, but to eyes that can see, still bearing the imprint of the heavenly body that hung thereon for three hours in unspeakable agony so that men might know how to live—and might learn how ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy



Words linked to "Heavenly body" :   universe, quasar, winkle, world, twinkle, planetoid, star, planet, creation, planetesimal, major planet, minor planet, natural object, macrocosm, quasi-stellar radio source, existence, scintillate, satellite, celestial body, cosmos, primary



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