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Definition of Canopus
1. Noun. Supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky.
Definition of Canopus
1. n. A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
Definition of Canopus
1. Proper noun. (star) A yellowish-white supergiant star in the constellation Carina; Alpha (?) Carinae. It is the second brightest star in the night sky. ¹
2. Proper noun. (Greek mythology) The pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad. ¹
3. Proper noun. An ancient city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Canopus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"This canal of canopus comes to the walls near Pompey's pillar, having run to the
weft of it : it has a ..."
2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"canopus When quacks with pills political would dope us, When politics absorbs
the livelong day, I like to think about that star canopus, So far, ..."
3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"canopus When quacks with pills political would dope us, When politics absorbs
the livelong day, I like to think about that star canopus, So far, ..."
4. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1848)
"The three canopus FROM CHIUSI. things between them appear to be ala- ... 2 This
canopus is described by Micali, Mon. ..."
5. History and Chronology of the Myth-making Age by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1901)
"C. Substitution of Orion for canopus as the leading star-god. ... up the Euphrates
valley the Dravidian farmers lost sight of their parent-star canopus, ..."
6. The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic Mechanism by Carl Snyder (1907)
"Sir David Gill sets the distance of canopus at a minimum of two hundred and ...
canopus is, again, a solar type of star; its density and temperature is, ..."
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