OUTER PLANET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outer planet mean? 

• OUTER PLANET (noun)
  The noun OUTER PLANET has 1 sense:

1. (astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

  Familiarity information: OUTER PLANET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTER PLANET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("outer planet" 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)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

Instance hyponyms:

Jupiter (the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky)

Neptune (a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants)

Saturn (a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun)

Uranus (a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites)

Holonyms ("outer planet" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)

 Context examples 

Whenever a major outer planet like Saturn settles into one of the four angles of the chart—the first house of personality, the fourth house of home, the seventh house of marriage/committed partnerships, or the tenth house of career fame and honors—that planet is considered exceptionally strong, like a wild stallion making his presence known.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When an outer planet like Uranus moves forward from sleepy retrograde to direct, that’s news, and it often gives you clues to the direction events will take regarding friendship and groups in the days to come.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)