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planetoid

plan·et·oid
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [plan-i-toid]
    • /ˈplæn ɪˌtɔɪd/
    • /ˈplæn.ə.tɔɪd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [plan-i-toid]
    • /ˈplæn ɪˌtɔɪd/

Definitions of planetoid word

  • noun planetoid an asteroid. 1
  • noun planetoid asteroid (sense 2) 0
See all 2 definitions of planetoid

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Origin of planetoid

First appearance:

before 1795
One of the 43% newest English words
First recorded in 1795-1805; planet + -oid

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Parts of speech for Planetoid

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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planetoid popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 44% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 57% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

planetoid usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for planetoid

noun planetoid

  • apple — An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.
  • apples — well or fine; under control.
  • asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
  • full moon — the moon when the whole of its disk is illuminated, occurring when in opposition to the sun.
  • half-moon — the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.
All 8 Synonyms of planetoid

Top questions with planetoid

  • what is a planetoid?

Related words

  • -oid

    (jargon)   (from "android") A suffix used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance. Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English. For example, "He's a nerdoid" means that he superficially resembles a nerd but can't make the grade; a "modemoid" might be a 300-baud modem (Real Modems run at 144000 or up); a "computeroid" might be any bitty box. "-oid" can also mean "resembling an android", which was once confined to science-fiction fans and hackers. It too has recently (in 1991) started to go mainstream (most notably in the term "trendoid" for victims of terminal hipness). This is probably traceable to the popularisation of the term droid in "Star Wars" and its sequels. Coinages in both forms have been common in science fiction for at least fifty years, and hackers (who are often SF fans) have probably been making "-oid" jargon for almost that long (though GLS and ESR can personally confirm only that they were already common in the mid-1970s).
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