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Word: Sidereal
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
mid 16th century (in the form sydereal): partly from obsolete French sidereal, and partly from Latin sidereus (from sidus, sider- ‘star’) + -al
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
sʌɪˈdɪərɪəl
Dialects: British English
Definition:
of or with respect to the distant stars (i.e. the constellations or fixed stars, not the sun or planets).
Short Definition:of or with respect to distant stars
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