heavenly body

1. 1.

   natural objects visible in the sky

   Synonymscelestial body

   Broadernatural object

   Narrowerminor planetplanetplanetesimalprimaryquasarsatellitestar

   Part ofuniverse

Questions about heavenly body

What does heavenly body mean?

heavenly body means "natural objects visible in the sky".

What is another word for heavenly body?

Close synonyms include celestial body. 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 heavenly body a common word?

heavenly body 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.