the brightest star, Beta Orionis, in the constellation Orion: a very luminous and extremely remote bluish-white supergiant, a double star. Visual magnitude: 0.12; spectral type: B8I
Word origin
C16: from Arabic rijl foot; from its position in Orion's foot
Rigel in American English
(ˈraɪdʒəl; raɪgəl)
noun
a supergiant binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Orion: magnitude, 0.14
see also Betelgeuse
Word origin
Ar rijl, foot: so called because in the left foot of Orion
Examples of 'Rigel' in a sentence
Rigel
That's Rigel which is the brightest star in Orion and is sixty thousand times more luminous than our sun.