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asteism
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ??????? (asteîos, “of the town; urbane”), from ???? (ástu, “town”). Compare Greek ????????? (asteïsmós).
Noun
asteism (countable and uncountable, plural asteisms)
- Polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another.
See also
- asteistic
- Backhanded compliment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- miseats, misseat, samites, tamises
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asterism
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (asterismós, “group of stars”), from ????? (ast?r, “star”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ast???z?m/
Noun
asterism (plural asterisms)
- (astronomy) An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).
- The Big Dipper, Summer Triangle, and Orion's Belt are asterisms.
- 1825, Geo G. Carey, Astronomy, as it is known at the present day, London, p. 66 f.:
- Of the constellations, or asterisms. [...] It therefore became necessary to adopt a more general method of distinguishing them. This was accomplished by portioning out the heavens into imaginary figures, of men, birds, fishes, &c. called Constellations or Asterisms.
- A rarely used typographical symbol (?, three asterisks arranged in a triangle), used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book.
- (mineralogy) A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).
Related terms
- aster
- asterisk
- asteroid
Translations
See also
- syzygy
Anagrams
- Reitsmas, Ritsemas, St. Maries, maisters, maistres, misrates, semistar, smarties
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