PLUTO

Pluto

(noun) a large asteroid that was once thought to be the farthest known planet from the sun; it has an elliptical orbit; “Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930”

Pluto, Dis, Dis Pater, Orcus

(noun) (Roman mythology) god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Hades

Pluto

(noun) a cartoon character created by Walt Disney

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

pluto (third-person singular simple present plutos, present participle plutoing, simple past and past participle plutoed)

(neologism) To demote or devalue something.

Anagrams

• pluot, poult

Etymology

Proper noun

Pluto

(Greek god, Roman god) Greco-Roman god of the underworld.

(astronomy) Originally known as the ninth planet in the solar system but reclassified in 2006 as a dwarf planet; the brightest and first known Kuiper belt object; represented by the symbol in astronomy and in astrology. [from 1930]

Synonyms: ♇ (symbol), Planet X (obsolete), (134340) Pluto, 134340 Pluto

Hypernym: dwarf planet

Anagrams

• pluot, poult

Source: Wiktionary


Plu"to, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Class. Myth.)

Definition: The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. Pluto monkey (Zoöl.), a long- tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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22 February 2025

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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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