heavenly body

English

Noun

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.

   Synonyms: celestial body, wanderstar

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.

Translations

natural celestial body

• Catalan: cos celeste m
• 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
• Galician: corpo celeste m
• Georgian: ციური სხეული (ciuri sxeuli)
• German: Himmelskörper (de) m
• Greek: ουράνιο σώμα (el) n (ouránio sóma)
• Hindi: प्राकृतिक खगोलीय पिंड (prākŕtik khagolīya piṇḍ)
• 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))
• Malayalam: സ്വാഭാവിക ആകാശഗോളങ്ങൾ (svābhāvika ākāśagōḷaṅṅaḷ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: himmellegeme (no) n

  Nynorsk: himmellekam (nn) m

• Pashto: آسماني بدن‎ f
• Persian: جرم آسمانی‎ (ǰerm e āsemāni)
• 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: natural na selestyal ng katawan
• Tamil: இயற்கை வான உடல்கள் (iyaṟkai vāṉa uṭalkaḷ)
• Turkish: gök cismi (tr)
• Welsh: corff wybrennol (cy) m

See also

• luminary