Usually means: Brightest star in Boötes constellation.
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  1. Arcturus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Arcturus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Arcturus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Arcturus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Arcturus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Arcturus: Wordnik
  7. Arcturus: Wiktionary
  8. Arcturus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Arcturus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Arcturus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Arcturus: Dictionary.com
  12. Arcturus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Arcturus (band), Arcturus (disambiguation), Arcturus (steamship), Arcturus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Arcturus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. arcturus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Arcturus: Rhymezone
  17. Arcturus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. arcturus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. arcturus: FreeDictionary.org
  20. arcturus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Arcturus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Arcturus: Merriam-Webster

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  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. Arcturus (star), Arcturus: Encyclopedia

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  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arcturus: Easton Bible
  2. Arcturus: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. arcturus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Arcturus: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Arcturus: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Arcturus)

noun:  (astronomy) A bright yellow-orange star in the constellation Boötes; Alpha (α) Boötis. It is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky.

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