Sirius
Definitions
- 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.
- The brightest star of the aforementioned star system; the white main-sequence star Sirius A.
Equivalents
24 more languages
Bosanskisirio
CatalàSírius
DanskHundestjernen
ΕλληνικάΣείριος
SuomiSirius
हिन्दीव्याध तारा
Hrvatskisirio
ItalianoSirio
Қазақ тіліСүмбіле
ភាសាខ្មែរផ្កាយព្រឹក
NederlandsSirius
PolskiSyriusz
Portuguêssírio
РусскийСириус
Српскиsirio
SvenskaHundstjärnan
Kiswahilishira
Türkçeakyıldız
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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