Definitions

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

  • adjective Giving forth flashes of light; glittering.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Flashing; coruscating; lighting by flashes.

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

  • adjective Glittering in flashes; flashing.

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

  • adjective Emitting flashes of light; glittering.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

Etymologies

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Latin coruscare, to flash, to sparkle.

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Examples

  • I think the word coruscant has been ruined. co·rus·cant adj.

    nessus Diary Entry nessus 2003

  • But thats not old... to achieve his time travel he destroy Coruscant... so in the old movies/series/games time line coruscant is no more... and at the same time they create a new time line where change all for ever

    Box Office Tracking: Star Trek Could Reach $65M for 4 Days! Easily Biggest Trek Opening Ever! | /Film 2009

  • I think we have all seen Coruscant in that other series of dumb movies by that guy Lucas…..prequals they call them……The battle over coruscant in the third film was just as dumb and just as intensive.

    Most Overrated Movie of 2009: Avatar | MovieChopShop 2009

  • October 24th, 2008 at 12: 18 am this list needs more Asimov, he added so much to the genre he deserves to make the list, also coruscant over dagobah anyday tinfoilhat Says:

    10 Best Science Fiction Planets 2008

  • Tagged: coruscant nights · cover art · darth vader

    2008 July 2008

  • Tagged: coruscant nights · cover art · darth vader

    Cover for Coruscant Nights: Patterns of Force 2008

  • As for the blood from the wound inflicted by Obi-wan in the cantina, remember he first lopped an arm off in a bar on coruscant (the shape shifting bounty hunter) and the wound was bloodless.

    Parenting 101 2005

  • - Two huge capital ships over coruscant, side by side exchanging shots, explosions all around

    worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2004

  • Executed under cover of night, as far as Flinx could tell the massive shape terminating in its coruscant Caplis projector came to rest in near silence among the thirty-meter-high dunes of the bucolic peninsula unnoticed by any living thing save for a pair of nesting amphibians.

    Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Executed under cover of night, as far as Flinx could tell the massive shape terminating in its coruscant Caplis projector came to rest in near silence among the thirty-meter-high dunes of the bucolic peninsula unnoticed by any living thing save for a pair of nesting amphibians.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

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  • Dim Jimmy will endlessly try

    To enliven the velvet night sky.

    He labors but just can’t

    Achieve the coruscant.

    The poor bug’s a failed firefly.

    May 4, 2015