worldletn.
/ˈwəːldlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈwər(ə)ldlət/ A small, solid celestial object; a planetoid.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > minor planet or asteroid > [noun]
asteroid1802
cometoid1803
planetoid1803
minor planet1823
dwarf planet1839
worldlet1841
1841 M. F. Tupper Author's Mind 26 As a last round of this giddy climax, after noisy clashing Chaos there shall roll out, ‘perfect, smooth, and round’, green young Worldlets, moving in quiet harmony, and moulded with systematic skill.
1926 Spectator 11 Sept. 375/1 So in turn we visit the asteroids, that belt of tiny worldlets flinging round the sun.
1968 S. R. Delaney Nova (1971) 21 He finally got up a party to land on Deimos and explored the tiny moon as only a worldlet can be explored.
1993 A. C. Clarke Hammer of God 108 Not much larger than a family automobile, it could..allow them to make a fairly detailed examination of the virgin worldlet.
2007 K. Nolan Mars viii. 132 Imagine..a worldlet several hundred kilometers in diameter colliding with the Earth at 30,000 kilometers per hour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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- tetrazooid
- tetrazotizable
- tetrazotization
- tetrazotize
- tetrazotized
- tetrazzini
- tetraëterid
- tetremimeral
- tetrethylic
- tetrevangelium
- tetri
- tetric
- the guts
- the habit
- the hale of
- the hale ware
- the half
- the half of it
- the hall
- the halves
- the hand is quicker than the eye
- the hand that rocks the cradle
- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
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