Neptune
pronunciation
How to pronounce Neptune in British English:
UK [ˈneptjuːn]
How to pronounce Neptune in American English:
US [ˈneptjuːn]
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- Noun:
- (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon
- a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun
Word Origin
- Neptune
- late 14c., "god of the sea," from Latin Neptunus, son of Saturn, brother of Jupiter, the Roman god of the sea (later identified with Greek Poseidon), probably from PIE root *nebh- "cloud" (source of Latin nebula "fog, mist, cloud;" see nebula), via a sense of "moist, wet." The planet so named was discovered by Galle in 1846. Until the identification of Pluto in 1930, it was the most distant planet known.
Example
- 1. Find neptune in the july sky
- 2. Neptune rules the health and work-front .
- 3. It 's even in speculation that neptune has oceanic glaciers made of pure diamonds .
- 4. Should eris , and many other objects circling the sun beyond neptune 's orbit ?
- 5. In fact , harps alone has detected about two-thirds of all known exoplanets with masses less than that of neptune .