Definitions for Aristarchus

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Aristarchus Ar·is·tar·chus

Spelling: [ar-uh-stahr-kuh s]

IPA: /ˌær əˈstɑr kəs/

Aristarchus is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 630 anagrams from letters in Aristarchus (aachirrsstu).

Definitions for Aristarchus

noun

1. of Samos, late 3rd century b.c, Greek astronomer.
2. of Samothrace, c216–144 b.c, Greek philologist and critic.
3. an extremely bright crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 29 miles (47 km) in diameter from crest to crest.

Examples for Aristarchus

Pray be my Aristarchus, and correct and marke what you thinke fitt.

Even Skoropikin, you know, our immortal Aristarchus, rings his praises.

Others, such as Aristarchus, were spitted on their own critical signs of disapproval.

You seem to have some trouble on your mind, Aristarchus; if so, you should share it with your friends.

Aristarchus took this to mean in the gate, in the country of the dead.

There is not, in fact, any proof even that Aristarchus must have known the tradition.

He said they were all his own, which made me laugh at the nonsense of Zenodotus and Aristarchus the grammarians.

Aristarchus and Dionysius the Thracian say that he was an Athenian.

Aristarchus answered: Yes, Socrates, I am in sore straits indeed.

On the contrary,” said Aristarchus, “I believe they know how to make all of them.