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sublunar

sublunar adjective: situated beneath the Moon.

Adjective

sublunar (not comparable)

  1. Situated beneath the Moon.
    • The City’s moon-lit spires and myriad lamps,
      Like stars in a sublunar sky did glow,
      And fires blazed far amid the scattered camps,
      Like springs of flame, which burst where’er swift Earthquake stamps.1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    sublunary, cislunar
  2. Of this world; earthly.
    Synonyms:
    sublunary

Synonyms of sublunar

Antonyms

Origin of sublunar

From sub- + lunar.

Questions about sublunar

What does sublunar mean?
Sublunar means situated beneath the Moon.
What part of speech is sublunar?
Sublunar is an adjective.

Words near sublunar in the dictionary

  1. subluminal
  2. subluminality
  3. subluminally
  4. subluminary
  5. subluminous
  6. sublunar
  7. sublunarean
  8. sublunarian
  9. sublunaries
  10. sublunary
  11. sublunary sphere

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