Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A double star in the constellation Taurus, 68 light years from Earth, and one of the brightest stars in the sky.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A chrome star of magnitude 1.0; a Tauri.
  • noun A chrome star of magnitude 1.0; a Tauri.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun (Astron.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades.

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  • proper noun astronomy A binary star in the constellation Taurus; alpha (α) Tauri. An orange giant, 68 light years from Earth, and one of the brightest stars in the sky.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the brightest star in Taurus

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English Aldeboran, from Medieval Latin Aldebaran, from Arabic ad-dabarān : al-, the + dabarān, following (the Pleiades) (from dabara, to follow; see dpr in Semitic roots).]

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From Arabic الدبران (al-dabarān), meaning "the follower" (of the Pleiades)

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Examples

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  • His roan Aldebaran is only one of the four superb thoroughbreds that are the real stars of the show.

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  • Krishna Janmashtami is observed on the eighth day, Ashtami tithi, of the dark half or Krishna Paksha of the month of Bhaadra in the Hindu calendar, when the Rohini Nakshatra called Aldebaran in the West is ascendant.

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  • Once he actually called Aldebaran a red star, but Rugel either did not hear the slip or thought he was repeating what one of the

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  • For instance we know positively that the bright star called Aldebaran near the constellation of the Pleiades is retreating from us at a rate of almost two thousand miles a minute.

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  • The moon, Mars and a bright star called Aldebaran are putting on a great skywatching show this week.

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  • Don't confuse it with reddish Aldebaran, which is up and to Mercury's left.

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  • Don't confuse it with reddish Aldebaran, which is up and to Mercury's left.

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  • Shining at a magnitude of +1.1, this red colored planet will be near, but above the red star Aldebaran, which is about the same magnitude.

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