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Planetos

Planetos proper noun: the unnamed fictional planet which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.

Proper noun

Planetos

  1. (slang) The unnamed fictional planet which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
    • However, the comet’s presence is not limited to the sky over Drogo’s pyre, and winter is coming to all of Planetos; […]2016, Patrice A. Loar, "'On the Cusp of Half-Remembered Prophecies': Interpreting Prophecy in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire", thesis submitted to the University of New Orleans, page 4
    • We aim to solve this problem by calculating the mass of Drogon from his size, and then estimating the lift that his wings would be able to generate, assuming that gravity on Planetos is the same as on Earth.2017, J. Edwards, J. Hancock, S. Nayak, “Do We Have Liftoff?”, in Journal of Physics Special Topics

Origin of Planetos

planet + -os, a suffix used in the series in the names of continents, e.g. Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos.

Questions about Planetos

What does Planetos mean?
Planetos means the unnamed fictional planet which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.
What part of speech is Planetos?
Planetos is a proper noun.

Words near Planetos in the dictionary

  1. planetological
  2. planetologist
  3. planetologists
  4. planetology
  5. planetophysics
  6. Planetos
  7. planetquake
  8. planetquakes
  9. planetree
  10. planetrees
  11. planetrise

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