celestial
IPA: sʌɫˈɛstʃʌɫ
noun
- An inhabitant of heaven.
- (obsolete, sometimes capitalized) A native of China.
- (obsolete, slang) by extension, an East Asian person.
- (historical) a person from the Celestial Empire (usually associated with the period of the Qing Dynasty)
adjective
- Synonym of heavenly: of or related to Heaven and the divine.
- Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
- (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
- Extremely good, pleasant, or blissful; heavenly.
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Examples of "celestial" in Sentences
- Would that be Santa in celestial .... not so good, right?
- The waterproof unit takes three AA batteries and has built-in celestial tables.
- As far as I know, there is no mathematical solution for the classic n-body problem in celestial mechanics.
- That is what we call the celestial nose, because it is always pointing skyward and serves as a perpetual interrogation point.
- Optatianus Porphyrius mentions more than once the monogram of Christ, which he calls the celestial sign, in the panegyric of Constantine which he wrote in Latin verse, but not
- It is not a question of the heavens which are separated by heaven "coming" to Earth, but what they described as celestial Earth being transposed into the crossbars. many heavens - the chiliocosm.
- This is only the latest twist in the government's attempts to convict Mr. Jeffs on charges related to his leadership of a several-thousand member sect in which he arranges plural marriages and joins young girls and much-older men in what he calls "celestial marriages."
- On the macroscopic scale, for most problems in celestial mechanics, Newtons theory of gravity, supplemented by treating relativistic effects as a small (very small) perturbation and irregularities in the mass distribution of gravitating bodies as multipole effects works extremely well.
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