MORNING STAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morning star mean? 

• MORNING STAR (noun)
  The noun MORNING STAR has 1 sense:

1. a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky

  Familiarity information: MORNING STAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORNING STAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

daystar; Lucifer; morning star; Phosphorus

Hypernyms ("morning star" is a kind of...):

major planet; planet ((astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction)

 Context examples 

It is as though a mole cried out against the morning star, because he could not see it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus she went on and on, and journeyed till she came to the world’s end; then she came to the sun, but the sun looked much too hot and fiery; so she ran away quickly to the moon, but the moon was cold and chilly, and said, I smell flesh and blood this way! so she took herself away in a hurry and came to the stars, and the stars were friendly and kind to her, and each star sat upon his own little stool; but the morning star rose up and gave her a little piece of wood, and said, If you have not this little piece of wood, you cannot unlock the castle that stands on the glass-mountain, and there your brothers live.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)