celestial navigation

1. 1.

   navigating according to the positions of the stars

   Synonymsastronavigation

   Broadernavigation

Questions about celestial navigation

What does celestial navigation mean?

celestial navigation means "navigating according to the positions of the stars".

What is another word for celestial navigation?

Close synonyms include astronavigation. 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 celestial navigation a common word?

celestial navigation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.