Phrase guide
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adj
Of or in the area of space beyond the gravitational influence of Earth, or outside the Solar System.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
All of space beyond the gravitational influence of Earth, or outside the Solar System, or distant from stars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
any region in space outside the solar system
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: region, part
History
Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1934 in his novel Triplanetary, first serialized in Amazing Stories. After deep sea.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
