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COPERNICUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conspicuous crater on the Moon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

lunar crater (a crater on the Earth's Moon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)

Synonyms:

Copernicus; Mikolaj Kopernik; Nicolaus Copernicus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

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