planet
(plænɪt )
Word forms: planets
1. countable noun B1
A planet is a large, round object in space that moves around a star. The Earth is a planet.
The picture shows six of the nine planets in the solar system.
2. singular noun
The planet is used to refer to the world we live in, especially our natural environment.
They were trying to cut their carbon footprint and save the planet.
They are among the few people on the planet who can afford to shop there.
Image of planet
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Idioms:
what planet is someone on? or what planet does someone come from?
said to mean that you think someone has crazy ideas, or behaves in a very strange way, or does not understand something at all
How on earth do they expect me to fund a nanny? What planet are they on?'
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Collocations:
alien planet another planet different planet planet's surface rocky planet save the planet sustainable planet sweep the planet warm the planet
From six metres below the surface, the rocky sea floor looked like an alien planet.
The Sun (2015)
It's a fantasy film about an alien planet.
Christianity Today (2000)
More than a century ago, two astronauts were stranded on an alien planet.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The place is so dazzlingly beautiful you feel like you are on another planet, while the wonderfully laidback Hawaiian people are warm and welcoming.
The Sun (2012)
There are no Westerners here and I must look like a creature from another planet.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If we found another planet with the same red shift then we could be pretty sure it contained plant life.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Being here is like being on a different planet.
The Sun (2014)
Anyway, leaf tea works out much cheaper than bags and is on a different planet as far as taste is concerned.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She must think she's on a different planet.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Contestants will train for years and then make the sevenmonth flight to live in pods on the planet's surface.
The Sun
The slate will have been wiped clean: wind, rain and the grinding of tectonic plates will remove all signs of humanity from the planet's surface.
Times, Sunday Times
Distinguishing features on the red planet's surface has presented problems for astronomers before.
Times, Sunday Times
It juts out of the planet's surface, casting a huge shadow.
The Sun
It orbits a sun-like star at a distance that would make conditions perfect for water to exist in liquid form on the planet's surface.
Times, Sunday Times
But now we have found a rocky planet we might discover one further away that could.
The Sun
The hot little world remains the least-explored rocky planet in the solar system, although not for much longer.
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The asteroid may be part of the debris from what might once have been a rocky planet with either ice or oceans.
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In one case, they saw three rocky planets.
Times,Sunday Times
Four in ten were orbited by rocky planets in the 'habitable zone' — the right distance for water to exist on the surface.
The Sun
Link has three days to save the planet, with each 'day' lasting about 20 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
Why can we not raise a billion euros in one day to save the planet?
Times, Sunday Times
Along with the third runway refusal, this could be just the impetus we need to reassess the way we travel and save the planet.
Times,Sunday Times
Not because they wanted to save the planet, but because they wanted to save money.
Times,Sunday Times
Not only had we joined a revolution to save the planet, we were filling our tanks for the price of a little methanol and lye.
Smithsonian Mag
Between us we share common interests, well-regulated free trade, the protection of intellectual property, and a sustainable planet.
Times,Sunday Times
I can't imagine that just making more money will get us to where we need to be in terms of a sustainable planet.
Smithsonian Mag
Only by working together can we hand over a healthy and sustainable planet to future generations.
Times, Sunday Times
It has to, or we won't have a sustainable planet.
The Sun
Food for a sustainable planet 216pp.
The Times Literary Supplement
Tornadoes, squalls and high velocity winds sweep the planet and add to the misery of the humanity already suffering from the energy crunch.
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Are you not aware of the scourge sweeping the planet?
Times, Sunday Times
But it's no one's fault that a virus has swept the planet.
Times,Sunday Times
But cracks soon open up under the project with news of a deadly plague sweeping the planet.
Times, Sunday Times
His advisers explained that he had dropped the phrase because he felt it suggested more enthusiasm for the changes sweeping the planet than he actually felt.
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Just as fossil fuel companies didn't intend to warm the planet, tech companies didn't design their algorithms to destroy the social fabric, merely to hold our attention.
Times, Sunday Times
This, they suggest, would have easily been enough to warm the planet.
Times, Sunday Times
This would melt the frozen carbon dioxide, warm the planet and make it nice for life.
Times, Sunday Times
This added carbon dioxide acts directly to warm the planet.
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They are warming the planet to boiling point.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 星球
Japanese: 惑星
- declare
- declare a ban
- declare a curfew
- declare a holiday
- declare a mistrial
- declare a moratorium on
- declare an aim
- declare an emergency
- declare an intention
- declare a state of emergency
- declare a truce
- declare a winner
- declare bankruptcy
- declared a draw
- declared a saint
- declare donations
- declared persona non grata
- declared void
- declare for
- declare income
- declare independence
- declare invalid
- declare legally
- declare officially
- declare publicly