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Fomalhaut

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, 24 light years from Earth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The first-magnitude star situated in the mouth of the Southern Fish, Piscis Austrinus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun astronomy The brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky; Alpha (α) Piscis Austrini.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Arabic fam al-ḥūt, mouth of the fish, Fomalhaut : fam, mouth; see p in Semitic roots + al-, the + ḥūt, fish.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Arabic فم الحوت (fam al-ḥūt, "the whale’s mouth"), from فم ("mouth") + حوت ("whale").

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Autumn
  2. Lonely
  3. Star
  4. of

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