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EVENING STAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
Synonyms:
evening star; Hesperus; Vesper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
major planet; planet ((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)
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