Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A star in the constellation Canis Major, the brightest star in the sky, approximately 8.6 light-years distant from Earth. Also called Dog Star, Sothis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A very white star, the brightest in the heavens, more than half a magnitude brighter than Canopus, the next brightest; the dog-star. Its magnitude is—1.4. It is situated in the mouth of the Dog.
Wiktionary
- n. astronomy A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Astron.) The Dog Star. See Dog Star.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major
Etymologies
- From Latin Sīrius, from Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seirios) (Wiktionary)
- Latin Sīrius, from Greek Seirios, from seirios, burning. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Sirius is thus no different than HBO, Showtime, ABC or even The New York Times.”
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“Sirius is the largest holding of the John Hancock fund.”
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“I'm guessing he's in Sirius 'room at Grimmauld Place because the room looks like it's been ransacked.”
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“Sirius is your best candidate since it would be an early setter in that area by now.”
“Our friend R.U. Sirius is editing a new magazine called h+ and the first issue is available as a free PDF.”
“Biggest disappointment: the utter lack of emotional fallout after Sirius is killed.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Sirius’.
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Dogs in Myth
Cerberus, hellhound, Fluffy, Anubis, barghest, Sirius, Argos, cynocephaly, waheela, kelpie, kitsune, Reynard and 25 more...
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Names of celestial stars
The stars in the sky often have poetic names. Those names are collected here
Betelgeuse, Rigel, Altair, Aldebaran, Bellatrix, Castor, Deneb, Fomalhaut, Polaris, Pollux, Saiph, Sirius and 6 more...
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collection
sanguine, vie, antebellum, glacial, treacly, iconoclast, lissom, anathema, serendipity, parsimonious, histrionic, contemptuous and 279 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Sirius.
hernesheir The dog-star.
Mar 15, 2011