major planet

Questions about major planet

What does major planet mean?

major planet means "(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction".

What is another word for major planet?

Close synonyms include planet. 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 major planet a common word?

major planet 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.