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say it: ZOH-dee-ak
zodiac is a noun meaning "a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes". It is pronounced /ˈzoʊdiˌæk/ — ZOH-dee-ak. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes
(astrology) a circular diagram representing the 12 zodiacal constellations and showing their signs
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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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zodiac come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.