English noun: Neptune |
1. | Neptune (person) (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon |
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| Instance hypernym | Roman deity |
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| Domain category | Roman mythology |
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2. | Neptune (object) a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants |
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| Samples | The existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846.
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| Instance hypernym | gas giant, Jovian planet, outer planet, superior planet |
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| Member meronym | solar system |
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