big dipper

Questions about big dipper

What does big dipper mean?

big dipper means "a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for big dipper?

Close synonyms include Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is big dipper a common word?

big dipper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.