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Sirius

Noun CEFR B1
ˈsɪɹi.əs

Definitions

  1. A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.
  2. The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.

Equivalents

Españolsirio
FrançaisSirius
24 more languages
Bosanskisirio
CatalàSírius
ΕλληνικάΣείριος
SuomiSirius
Hrvatskisirio
ItalianoSirio
Қазақ тіліСүмбіле
ភាសាខ្មែរផ្កាយព្រឹក
NederlandsSirius
PolskiSyriusz
Portuguêssírio
РусскийСириус
Српскиsirio
Kiswahilishira
Türkçeakyıldız

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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