charles's wain

1. 1.

   a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

   SynonymsBig DipperDipperPloughWainWagon

   Broaderasterism

   Part ofGreat Bear

Questions about charles's wain

What does charles's wain mean?

charles's wain means "a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major".

What is another word for charles's wain?

Close synonyms include Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, 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 charles's wain a common word?

charles's wain 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.