PLUTO

Pronunciation (US):

• PLUTO (noun)
  The noun PLUTO has 3 senses:

1. a cartoon character created by Walt Disney
2. (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone
3. a small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets

  Familiarity information: PLUTO used as a noun is uncommon.

• PLUTO (noun)

Meaning:

A cartoon character created by Walt Disney

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aides; Aidoneus; Hades; Pluto

Instance hypernyms:

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Meaning:

A small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930

Instance hypernyms:

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 ("Pluto" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)