NEPTUNE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Neptune mean?
• NEPTUNE (noun)
The noun NEPTUNE has 2 senses:
1. (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon
2. a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants
Familiarity information: NEPTUNE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NEPTUNE (noun)
Meaning:
(Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Domain category:
Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)
Meaning:
A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Context example:
the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846
Instance hypernyms:
gas giant; Jovian planet (any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter))
outer planet ((astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto))
superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)
Holonyms ("Neptune" is a member of...):
solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
