Usually means: Sirius, brightest star in Canis.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dog Star: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dog Star: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Dog Star: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Dog Star, the Dog Star: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Dog Star: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dog Star, Dog-star, dog-star: Wordnik
  7. Dog Star: Wiktionary
  8. Dog Star: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Dog Star: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Dog Star, dog star: Dictionary.com
  11. Dog Star (disambiguation), Dog Star (short story), Dog star: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Dog Star: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Dog star: Rhymezone
  14. Dog Star: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. Dog-star: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. dog star: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dog star: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Dog Star: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Dog Star: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dog Star, The Dog-Star: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dog star: Urban Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dog Star)

▸ noun:  (astronomy) A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris A. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star.

Similar:
Sirius, Sothis, Canicula, Canis Major, Wezen, Procyon, Aludra, Canis Minor, Furud, Gomeisa, more...

Opposite:
Antares, Betelgeuse, Sirius B

Phrases:
the dog star, Dog Man Star, Dog Star Man, more...

Adjectives:
bear, alpha, cancer, vesper, virgin, belter, ara, metis, ram, io, pan

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Similar:
Sirius, Sothis, Canicula, Canis Major, Wezen, Procyon, Aludra, Canis Minor, Furud, Gomeisa, more...

Opposite:
Antares, Betelgeuse, Sirius B

Phrases:
the dog star, Dog Man Star, Dog Star Man, more...

Adjectives:
bear, alpha, cancer, vesper, virgin, belter, ara, metis, ram, io, pan



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