PLUTO
Dictionary entry overview: What does Pluto mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• 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)
