pluto

IPA: pɫˈutoʊ

Root Word: Pluto

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Greco-Roman god of the underworld.
(astronomy) The largest dwarf planet and formerly the ninth planet, represented by the symbol ♇ or ⯓, both now used mostly in astrology.

Examples of "pluto" in Sentences

I've been following the whole "pluto" debate since I was little and a teacher happened to mention it.
Do you care about it as much as, say, you care that the word "pluto" has been chosen as the 2006 word of the year?
I actaully have a really good reason for not calling pluto a planet…aside from pissing john off which is reward onto itself
In Similar Images, for example, a person searching for "pluto" would get images of the planet, the Disney cartoon character, and the Roman god of the underworld.
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To pluto is to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet.
To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.
The decision to recognize this new meaning for the word "pluto" the official definition is "to demote or devalue someone or something" was made by the American Dialect Society, a noble institution that has been nitpicking word usage for 117 years.