NOVA meaning: Explosive, bright eruption of star

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word nova:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

nova: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nova: Merriam-Webster
nova: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
nova: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
nova: Collins English Dictionary
nova: Vocabulary.com
Nova, nova: Wordnik
nova: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
NOVA, NoVA, Nova, nova: Wiktionary
nova: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
nova: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
nova: Infoplease Dictionary
NOVA: Dictionary.com
nova: Online Etymology Dictionary
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NOVA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
nova: FreeDictionary.org
nova: Mnemonic Dictionary
nova: TheFreeDictionary.com
nova: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)

nova: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

Nova: CCI Computer
nova: Encyclopedia
Nova: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

baby names list (No longer online)
NOVA: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)

Nova: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
Nova: Extragalactic Astronomy
NOVA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary
nova: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)

High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
JPL Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (astronomy) Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star.
▸ noun:  A female given name from Latin.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Smoked Nova Scotia salmon.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of NoVA
▸ noun:  Acronym of Northern Virginia.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of NoVA (“North Virginia”)
▸ noun:  (UK) Initialism of notification of vehicle arrival.

Opposite:

black hole, dwarf star, supernova

Phrases:

Nova Scotia, Terra Nova, Nova Scotian, bossa nova, Ars nova, more...

Adjectives:

old, bossa, sayat, ordinary, recurrent, bright, typical, super, slow, blue, classical

Colors:

silver, blue, white, black, gold, more...

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