planethoodn.
/ˈplanᵻthʊd/, U.S. /ˈplænətˌ(h)ʊd/ rare before 20th cent.
The state or condition of being a planet.
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planethood1674
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 90 That which claws away world from about them, would, 'tis like, wring out their Planethood from within them.
1955 Philos. Rev. 64 395 There is no such number as the number of planets and of foolish virgins, and yet ‘F is equinumerous with planethood and F is equinumerous with foolish virginity’ is a perfectly respectable matrix.
2001 Wired Apr. 118/1 Pluto is..a remnant so runty that some scientists believe it should be stripped of its planethood and demoted to the rank of ‘object’ or ‘trans-Neptunian body’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1674- oliphant
- oliphant sickness
- oliphant's teeth
- oliphants
- oliprance
- olisbos
- olisbos-like
- olisboslike
- olistolith
- olistostrome
- olitories
- olitory
- oliva
- oliva inferior
- oliva shell
- oliva superior
- olivaceo
- olivaceo-
- olivaceo-aeneous
- olivaceo-cinereous
- olivaceoaeneous
- olivaceocinereous
- olivaceous
- olivader
- olivander