satellite

1. 1.

   broadcast or disseminate via satellite

   Broaderair

1. 1.

   surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power

   “a city and its satellite communities”

   Similarouter

Other forms of satellite

plural

satellites·

past tense

satellited·

present participle

satelliting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about satellite

What does satellite mean?

satellite means "man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in satellite?

satellite has 3 syllables: sat-el-lite. The stress falls on "sat". In IPA it is /ˈsætəˌlaɪt/.

What is another word for satellite?

Close synonyms include artificial satellite, orbiter, 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 satellite a common word?

satellite is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with satellite?

27 words rhyme with satellite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.