celestialce‧les‧ti‧al /səˈlestiəl $ -tʃəl/ adjective [usually before noun] 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINcelestial
ExamplesOrigin:
1300-1400 Old French, Latin caelestis, from caelum ‘sky’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- celestial music
- A marble collage of celestial entities adorned the wall above Demian's head.
- It dominated the world of man and was represented by the celestial firmament.
- The early experiments involve simple angular measurement of the coordinates of celestial objects for star positions, planetary motions etc.
- The satellite, therefore, with its celestial impunity was the perfect platform.
- The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.
- Then the Sun sank below the rings, so that they framed it with their arches, and the celestial fireworks ceased.
- There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon.
- This new perception of celestial motion immediately explained numerous daily observations and solved problems of astronomical coherence.
WORD SETS► Astronomy
Collocationsasteroid, nounastro-, prefixastronaut, nounastronomical, adjectiveastronomy, nounastrophysics, nounAU, aurora borealis, nounBig Bang, the, nounblack hole, nouncelestial, adjectivecomet, nounconstellation, nouncorona, nouncosmic, adjectivecosmic ray, nouncosmology, nouncosmonaut, noundead, adjectiveearth, nouneclipse, nouneclipse, verbecliptic, nounequinox, nounescape velocity, nounextraterrestrial, adjectivegalactic, adjectivegalaxy, noungeostationary orbit, nounHubble Space Telescope, the, infinity, nounintergalactic, adjectiveinterplanetary, adjectiveinterstellar, adjectiveJupiter, nounlaunch, verblaunch, nounlight year, nounLittle Bear, lunar, adjectivelunar month, nounmagnitude, nounMars, nounMercury, nounmeteor, nounmeteoric, adjectivemeteorite, nounMilky Way, the, month, nounmoon, nounmorning star, nounNASA, nounnebula, nounNeptune, nounnew moon, nounnova, nounobservatory, nounorbit, verborbit, nounorbiter, nounouter space, nounphase, nounplanet, nounplanetarium, nounplasma, nounPluto, nounquadrant, nounquarter, nounquasar, nounradio telescope, nounring, nounrocket, nounsatellite, nounSaturn, nounsea, nounshooting star, nounsolar, adjectivesolar system, nounspace, nounspace capsule, nounspacecraft, nounspace probe, nounspaceship, nounspace shuttle, nounspace station, nounstar, nounstargazer, nounsteady state theory, nounstellar, adjectivesun, nounsunspot, nounsupernova, nountelescope, nountelescopic, adjectiveterrestrial, adjectiveUranus, nounVenus, nounwane, verbwax, verbwhite dwarf, nounworld, nounzenith, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► celestial bodies
1relating to the sky or heavencelestial bodies (=the Sun, Moon, stars etc)2literary very beautiful (=the Sun, Moon, stars etc)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► body· But the observations threatened a notion fundamental for many Aristotelians, namely, that all celestial bodies are perfect spheres.· Some have finials, some have celestial bodies or attached benches.· Perhaps there was a way to read longitude in the relative positions of the celestial bodies.· The celestial bodies than proceed to pass through the same series of configurations as they had done countless times before.
► sphere· No one wanted to pay for music; the general feeling was that it should flow free from the celestial spheres.· This hulking Atlas is carrying the universe upon his shoulders, a hollow orb ringed with the constellations of the celestial sphere.· Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres.