What is another word for zodiacal?

Pronunciation: [zˈə͡ʊdɪˌakə͡l] (IPA)

The word "zodiacal" refers to anything related to the twelve astrological signs that make up the zodiac. Some synonyms for zodiacal include celestial, astrological, and horoscopic. These words suggest a connection to the stars and planets, as well as the practice of reading and interpreting their movements and positions to gain insight into human behavior and events. Other synonyms for zodiacal might include astrologic, astrolabe, or even simply zodiac. Regardless of the term used, the idea of the zodiacal signs represents a fascinating and enduring element of human culture and mythology, dating back thousands of years to ancient civilizations such as the Babylonians and Greeks.

What are the hypernyms for Zodiacal?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Zodiacal

For a few nights there shone for him the pale, scattered, and sad zodiacal light, which, after the waning of the evening twilight, silvered until a late hour the western side of the sky.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
After all it was considerably easier to return, as in the stillness of the night came from a distance the roar of the waterfall; the clouds in the western sky were scattered and, besides the moon, the zodiacal light shone strongly.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
What zodiacal constellation came to the meridian at midnight on that date?
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock

Famous quotes with Zodiacal

  • Gilt-tooled on yard-square panels of green leather—imitation, of course—the zodiacal signs looked down from the walls of the executive lunch-room. The air was full of the chatter of voices and the clink of ice-cubes. Waiting to be attacked when the president of the company joined them (he had promised to show at one sharp) was a table laden with expensive food: hard-boiled eggs, shells intact so that it could be seen they were brown, free-range, rich in carotene; lettuces whose outer leaves had been rasped by slugs; apples and pears wearing their maggot-marks like dueling scars, in this case presumably genuine ones though it had been known for fruit growers to fake them with red-hot wires in areas where insects were no longer found; whole hams, very lean, proud of their immunity from antibiotics and copper sulphate; scrawny chickens; bread as coarse as sandstone, dark as mud and nubbled with wheat grains . . .
    John Brunner

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