little dipper

Questions about little dipper

What is another word for little dipper?

It depends which little dipper you mean. In the sense “a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris”, the synonyms are Dipper. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of little dipper?

WordNet records no antonym for little dipper. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for little dipper come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of little dipper

• Full entry for little dipperAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for little dipperWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.