English Explanatory Dictionary

Jupiter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The fifth and by far the largest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant, represented by the symbol ♃ in astronomy. Jupiter is known for its Great Red Spot and many moons including the Galilean moons.
  2. The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn. As supreme god of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the god of thunder, lightning, and storms, and appropriately called the god of light and sky.
  3. The largest or most prominent member of a group.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. An unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, named after a mine.
  6. A town in Palm Beach County, Florida, named in error after the Roman god.
  7. A township in Kittson County, Minnesota, named after the planet.
  8. An unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina.
  9. A summer resort on the Black Sea in Romania.
noun
  1. Azure (blue), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
  2. Alternative spelling of jupiter.
  3. Tin.
intj
  1. Synonym of by Jupiter.
noun
  1. A class of planets that are similar in mass to Jupiter.

Pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒupɪtɚ/ [ˈd͡ʒupɪɾɚ] En-us-Jupiter.ogg

Word forms

Jupiter jupiters Jupiter-class planet Jupiter class planet

Etymology

From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.

Synonyms

♃ by Jupiter jovian Jovian planet Jovian-class planet Jovian class planet

Derived words

Jupiter brain Jupiter Island Jupiterlike Jupiter peach superjupiter

Translations

Abkhaz: Иупитер Afrikaans: Jupiter Albanian: Enjëti Albanian: Jupiteri Amharic: ጁፒተር Arabic: اَلْمُشْتَرِي Arabic: يُوبِيتَر Aragonese: Chupiter Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܢܘܿ Armenian: Յուպիտեր Armenian: Լուսնթագ Assamese: বৃহস্পতি Asturian: Xúpiter Azerbaijani: Yupiter Azerbaijani: Müştəri Bashkir: Юпитер Basque: Jupiter Belarusian: Юпі́тэр Bengali: বৃহস্পতি Central Bikol: Hupiter Breton: yaou Burmese: ကြာသပတေး Buryat: пүрбэ Catalan: Júpiter Chechen: Юпитер Cherokee: ᏧᏈᏓ Chinese Cantonese: 木星 Chinese: 木星 Chinese Mandarin: 木星 Chinese Mandarin: 朱庇特 Wu Chinese: 木星 Coptic: ⲍⲉⲩⲥ Cornish: Jubyter Cornish: Yow Corsican: Ghjove Crimean Tatar: Müşteri Czech: Jupiter Danish: Jupiter Dutch: Jupiter Dzongkha: ཕུར་བུ Esperanto: Jupitero Estonian: Jupiter Faroese: Jupiter Fijian: Jupita Finnish: Jupiter Finnish: Juppiter Franco-Provençal: Jupitèr
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