extraplanetary love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as ultra-planetary.

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  • adjective Originating, or located outside of a planet
  • adjective extraterrestrial, originating or located outside Earth

Etymologies

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extra- +‎ planetary

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Examples

  • With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, an astronaut from Russia or Japan would be as likely as one from the United States to board the International Space Station—where extraplanetary work still goes on, in English.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, an astronaut from Russia or Japan would be as likely as one from the United States to board the International Space Station—where extraplanetary work still goes on, in English.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In 1979, Carnegie Mellon University anointed the term with academic authority by founding its now-renowned Robotics Institute, which specializes in what the institute calls “thinking robots,” from the miniature to the medical and beyond, to the extraplanetary.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In 1979, Carnegie Mellon University anointed the term with academic authority by founding its now-renowned Robotics Institute, which specializes in what the institute calls “thinking robots,” from the miniature to the medical and beyond, to the extraplanetary.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The only other movie to do that more graphically is "Wall•E," with its extraplanetary leisure world of grotesque waddlers.

    'Incendies' Burns With Mystery, Truth Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • But on Wednesday, Newt "grandiose is my middle name" it isn't Gingrich took those truisms on to a whole new, extraplanetary level.

    Newt Gingrich promises moon base by the end of his second term 2012

  • The sprawling story of how extraplanetary imperialists impose a mission civilisatrice on the dune-dwelling, sandworm-herding "savages" of an almost waterless world is rich in historic, anthropological and archaeological allusions.

    Any Drop to Drink? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 2011

  • The atmosphere is still recovering from problems associated with the impact of a group of extraplanetary objects about two hundred years ago.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • So if the 'Martian methane' is not due to extraplanetary sources, we're down to biological or geological origin or a combo?

    New Findings Say Mars Methane Comes from Life or Water — or Both | Universe Today 2009

  • However his pursuit of this man using extraplanetary techniques leads him to discover an even bigger and more destabilising secret.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Sight Of Proteus - Charles Sheffield Blue Tyson 2009

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