PEGASUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pegasus mean? 

• PEGASUS (noun)
  The noun PEGASUS has 2 senses:

1. (Greek mythology) the immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa; was tamed by Bellerophon with the help of a bridle given him by Athena; as the flying horse of the Muses it is a symbol of highflying imagination

2. a constellation in the northern hemisphere near Andromeda and Pisces

  Familiarity information: PEGASUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEGASUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa; was tamed by Bellerophon with the help of a bridle given him by Athena; as the flying horse of the Muses it is a symbol of highflying imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A constellation in the northern hemisphere near Andromeda and Pisces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

 Context examples 

The planet, one of four which orbit the star HR 8799, was found 120 light years away in the constellation Pegasus.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The exoplanet was discovered in 2010 orbiting the young main-sequence star HR8799, which lies around 129 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

The black hole in this new study, referred to as Markarian 335, or Mrk 335, is about 324 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the Pegasus constellation.

(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)

It has now shot back up above the plane of the planets and, travelling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second) with respect to the Sun, the object is speeding toward the constellation Pegasus.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

Helen Della Delmar (proclaimed with a flourish of trumpets and rolling of tomtoms to be the greatest woman poet in the United States) denied Brissenden a seat beside her on Pegasus and wrote voluminous letters to the public, proving that he was no poet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)