adj
Meaning 1
Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
astral
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈæstɹəl/
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rhymes with -æstɹəl
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CMU ARPABET: AE1 S T R AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Relating to an aster.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
Examples
- astral rays
- astral sphere
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Composed of ethereal material or non-physical (sometimes supersensible), and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body (as an astral body) to travel to other places or to other realms of existence (in or via the astral plane).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fantasy, parapsychology, pseudoscience
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A supernatural being from the astral plane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: parapsychology, pseudoscience
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an astral body
- stellar light
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stellar
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Late Latin astrālis, from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: yjor — relating to or resembling the stars
- Albanian: yjore — relating to or resembling the stars
- Arabic: نَجْمِيّ (najmiyy) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Arabic: نَجْمِيَّة (najmiyya) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Bulgarian: звезден (zvezden) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Catalan: astral — relating to or resembling the stars
- Finnish: astraalinen — relating to or resembling the stars
- Finnish: tähti- — relating to or resembling the stars
- French: astral — relating to or resembling the stars
- Galician: astral — relating to or resembling the stars
- Greek: αστρικός (astrikós) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Greek: αστρώος (astróos) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Italian: astrale — relating to or resembling the stars
- Kazakh: жұлдыздық (jūldyzdyq) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Kazakh: жұлдызды (jūldyzdy) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Latin: astrālis — relating to or resembling the stars
- Persian: اختری (axtari) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Polish: astralny — relating to or resembling the stars
- Polish: gwiezdny — relating to or resembling the stars
- Portuguese: astral — relating to or resembling the stars
- Portuguese: estelar — relating to or resembling the stars
- Romanian: astral — relating to or resembling the stars
- Romanian: stelar — relating to or resembling the stars
- Russian: звёздный (zvjózdnyj) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Spanish: astral — relating to or resembling the stars
- Spanish: estelar — relating to or resembling the stars
- Uzbek: yulduzli — relating to or resembling the stars
- Yakut: сулустаах (sulustaaq) — relating to or resembling the stars
- Finnish: astraalinen — relating to a supposed supersensible substance
- Greek: αστρικός (astrikós) — relating to a supposed supersensible substance
- Polish: astralny — relating to a supposed supersensible substance
- Portuguese: astral — relating to a supposed supersensible substance
- Russian: астра́льный (astrálʹnyj) — relating to a supposed supersensible substance