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adj
Synonym of celestial: of or resembling the heavens.
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Usage: obsolete
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name
A unisex given name.
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noun
A heavenly being: an angel or other resident of Heaven.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO4, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A member of a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.
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Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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History
From Old French celestin, Latin caelestīnus, from caelestis (“heavenly”) + -inus (“-ine”), from caelum (“sky, heavens, Heaven”). Equivalent to celest + -ine.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kéh2i-lom Proto-Italic *kailom? Latin caelum Latin terrestris Latin -estris Latin caelestis Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus Latin caelestinus Latin Caelestinuslbor. English Celestine Learned borrowing from Latin Caelestinus.
From Italian celestina (“sky-blue”), from Latin caelestīnus, &c.
Across languages
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