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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sun together with the eight planets and all other celestial bodies that orbit the sun.
- noun A system of planets or other bodies orbiting a star.
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- proper noun The
Solar System ; theSun and all the objects in orbit around it. - noun Any collection of
heavenly bodies including astar orbinary star , and any lighter stars,brown dwarfs ,planets , and other objects in orbit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
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