Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bright double star in the constellation Orion, approximately 815 light years from Earth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy A blue
supergiant star in theconstellation Orion ; Beta (β) Orionis. The seventh brightest star in the night sky.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the brightest star in Orion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Night Train to Rigel is a fast-moving action-adventure story starting with its attention-grabbing opening scene.
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By the end of the book, all plotlines (even the coincidental ones) are very neatly tied up leaving the impression that Night Train to Rigel is a fun ride.
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Before I knew she was a girl, I was considering calling her Rigel, a character on the sci-fi show “Farscape”.
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Even if there was also a woman involved, she told herself, only half-believing it, even as she only half-believed in this place called Rigel.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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Even if there was also a woman involved, she told herself, only half-believing it, even as she only half-believed in this place called Rigel.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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I used to OWN both "Rigel" and "Star Warrior," in legimate copies, no less -- Automated Simulations was one of the few companies that produced stuff I was willing to pay money for.
Message Bases the Alter Reality BBS 1990
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'Rigel's is probably the worst in property damage and urgency.
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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This style called "Rigel" that was also specially created for Rezzables event, to me is both futuristic and very down to earth.
World of SL 2010
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That day, the secretary had to travel to Earth from Rigel IV for their meeting, but the ship ferrying her should have arrived an hour ago.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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That day, the secretary had to travel to Earth from Rigel IV for their meeting, but the ship ferrying her should have arrived an hour ago.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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