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Webster 1913 Edition
Aldebaran
Al-deb′a-ran
(ăl-dĕb′ȧ-răn)
, p
rop.
Noun.
[Ar.
al-debarān
, fr. dabar
to follow; so called because this star follows upon the Pleiades.] (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
. Now when
Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair.
Aldebaran
was mounted highAbove the shiny Cassiopeia's chair.
Spenser.
Definition 2024
Aldebaran
Aldebaran
English
Proper noun
Aldebaran
- (astronomy) One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth. [from 14th c.]
- c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
- To telle riht as he began, / The ferste sterre Aldeboran, / The cliereste and the moste of alle, / Be rihte name men it calle […]
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
- The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.
- 2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, in The Guardian:
- The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.
- c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
Translations
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.də.ba.ʁɑ̃/
Proper noun
Aldebaran
- (astronomy) Aldebaran
- 1854, Gérard de Nerval, ‘Sylvie’, Les Filles du feu:
- Tour à tour bleue et rose comme l'astre trompeur d’Aldebaran, c'était Adrienne ou Sylvie, – c'étaient les deux moitiés d'un seul amour.
- Blue and pink by turns like the deceptive star of Aldebaran, it was Adrienne and Sylvie – they were the two halves of a single love.
- Tour à tour bleue et rose comme l'astre trompeur d’Aldebaran, c'était Adrienne ou Sylvie, – c'étaient les deux moitiés d'un seul amour.
- 1854, Gérard de Nerval, ‘Sylvie’, Les Filles du feu: