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ASTRAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does astral mean?
• ASTRAL (adjective)
The adjective ASTRAL has 1 sense:
1. being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars
Familiarity information: ASTRAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
astral; stellar
Context example:
stellar light
Pertainym:
star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)
Context examples
The 2.7-mile wide astral body, called Florence, will not approach the planet this close again until 2500.
(Biggest Asteroid Ever Detected Flies Past Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Nor in astral bodies.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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