heavenly body

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NounEdit

heavenly body (plural heavenly bodies)

1. A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.
2. An astronomical object. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (religion, chiefly Christianity) The recreated, angel-like body that people will have in heaven.

SynonymsEdit

• celestial body

TranslationsEdit

natural celestial body

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天體 (zh), 天体 (zh) (tiāntǐ)

• Czech: nebeské těleso n
• Dutch: hemellichaam (nl) n
• Finnish: taivaankappale (fi)
• French: corps céleste (fr) m
• Georgian: ციური სხეული (ciuri sxeuli)
• German: Himmelskörper (de) m
• Greek: ουράνιο σώμα (el) n (ouránio sóma)
• Hungarian: égitest (hu)
• Ido: astro (io)
• Irish: rinn m
• Italian: corpo celeste (it) m
• Japanese: 天体 (ja) (てんたい, tentai)

• Korean: 천체 (ko) (cheonche) (天體 (ko))
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: himmellegeme (no) n

  Nynorsk: himmellekam (nn) m

• Polish: ciało niebieskie (pl) n
• Portuguese: corpo celeste m
• Romanian: corp ceresc (ro) n
• Russian: небе́сное те́ло (ru) n (nebésnoje télo)
• Spanish: cuerpo celeste (es) m
• Swedish: himlakropp (sv) c
• Tagalog: lawas na langitnin
• Turkish: gök cismi (tr)
• Welsh: corff wybrennol (cy) m

See alsoEdit

• luminary