heavenly body

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Noun

heavenly body (plural heavenly bodies)

1. A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.

   Synonyms: celestial body, wanderstar

2. An astronomical object. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (religion, chiefly Christianity) The recreated, angel-like body that people will have in heaven.

Translations

natural celestial body

• Arabic: جِرْم سَمَاوِيّ m (jirm samāwiyy), جِرْم فَلَكِيّ m (jirm falakiyy)
• Armenian: երկնային մարմին (erknayin marmin)
• Azerbaijani: göy cismi
• Belarusian: нябе́снае це́ла n (njabjésnaje cjéla)
• Breton: korf-oabl m
• Bulgarian: небе́сно тя́ло n (nebésno tjálo)
• Catalan: cos celeste m, astre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天體／天体 (tin¹ tai²)

  Mandarin: 天體／天体 (zh) (tiāntǐ)

• Czech: nebeské těleso n
• Danish: himmellegeme (da) n
• Dutch: hemellichaam (nl) n
• Estonian: taevakeha (et)
• Finnish: taivaankappale (fi)
• French: corps céleste (fr) m
• Galician: corpo celeste m
• Georgian: ციური სხეული (ciuri sxeuli)
• German: Himmelskörper (de) m, Gestirn (de) n
• Greek: ουράνιο σώμα (el) n (ouránio sóma)
• Hindi: प्राकृतिक खगोलीय पिंड (prākŕtik khagolīya piṇḍ)
• Hungarian: égitest (hu)
• Ido: astro (io)
• Irish: rinn m
• Italian: corpo celeste (it) m
• Japanese: 天体 (ja) (てんたい, tentai)
• Korean: 천체(天體) (ko) (cheonche)
• Latvian: debess ķermenis m
• Lithuanian: dangaus kūnas m
• Macedonian: небесно тело n (nebesno telo)
• Malayalam: സ്വാഭാവിക ആകാശഗോളങ്ങൾ (svābhāvika ākāśagōḷaṅṅaḷ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: himmellegeme (no) n

  Nynorsk: himmellekam (nn) m

• Pashto: آسماني بدن f
• Persian: جرم آسمانی (jerm-e âsmâni), جرم سماوی (jerm-e samâvi)
• Polish: ciało niebieskie (pl) n
• Portuguese: corpo celeste (pt) m
• Romanian: corp ceresc (ro) n, astru (ro) m or n
• Russian: небе́сное те́ло (ru) n (nebésnoje télo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: небеско тело n, небеско тијело n

  Roman: nebesko telo n, nebesko tijelo n

• Slovak: nebeské telo n
• Slovene: nebeško telo n
• Spanish: cuerpo celeste (es) m
• Swedish: himlakropp (sv) c
• Tagalog: natural na selestyal ng katawan
• Tajik: ҷисми осмонӣ (jism-i osmoni), ҷирми осмонӣ (jirm-i osmoni)
• Tamil: இயற்கை வான உடல்கள் (iyaṟkai vāṉa uṭalkaḷ)
• Turkish: gök cismi (tr)
• Ukrainian: небе́сне ті́ло (uk) n (nebésne tílo)
• Vietnamese: thiên thể (vi) (天體)
• Welsh: corff nefol m, corff wybrennol (cy) m

See also

• luminary