Usually means: Small rocky body orbiting sun.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. asteroid: Merriam-Webster
  2. asteroid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asteroid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asteroid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asteroid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Asteroid: Wordnik
  7. asteroid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. asteroid: Wiktionary
  9. asteroid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. asteroid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. asteroid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. asteroid: Dictionary.com
  13. asteroid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Asteroid (album), Asteroid (disambiguation), Asteroid (film), Asteroid (horse), Asteroid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Asteroid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. asteroid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. asteroid: Rhymezone
  18. Asteroid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. asteroid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. asteroid: FreeDictionary.org
  21. asteroid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. asteroid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. asteroid: Wordnik
  24. asteroid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. asteroid: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asteroid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. asteroid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. asteroid: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ASTEROID: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Asteroid: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Asteroid: Glossary on Meteor Astronomy
  3. Asteroid: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. asteroid: Nine Planets Glossary
  5. asteroid: Evolution Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Asteroid: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See asteroidal as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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▸ noun:  (astronomy) A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) In the Solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter
▸ noun:  (zoology) Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.

Similar:
angulate, planetoid, minor planet, angular, star-shaped, exoasteroid, neoasteroid, asterite, Apollo, primary planet, more...

Opposite:
comet, cometoid

Types:
comet, meteor, meteoroid, more...

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asteroid belt, asteroid belts, Apollo asteroid, Asteroid body, Trojan asteroid, more...

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large, small, first, new, giant, huge, second, type, single, massive, big

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Similar:
angulate, planetoid, minor planet, angular, star-shaped, exoasteroid, neoasteroid, asterite, Apollo, primary planet, more...

Opposite:
comet, cometoid

Types:
comet, meteor, meteoroid, more...

Phrases:
asteroid belt, asteroid belts, Apollo asteroid, Asteroid body, Trojan asteroid, aten asteroid, amor asteroid, asteroid hyalosis, earth-crossing asteroid, earth crossing asteroid, Apohele asteroid, more...

Adjectives:
large, small, first, new, giant, huge, second, type, single, massive, big

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     charcoal,     gunmetal,     pewter, more...



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