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Zeta Puppis, a star in the constellation of Puppis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension) the Roman cella, which it later gave rise to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: architecture
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noun
plural of nao
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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History
From Ancient Greek ναός (naós, “inner part of the temple”).
