Definitions for asteroid

asteroid as·ter·oid

Spelling: [as-tuh-roid]
IPA: /ˈæs təˌrɔɪd/

Asteroid is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 587 anagrams from letters in asteroid (adeiorst).

Definitions for asteroid

noun

  1. Also called minor planet. Astronomy. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of Mars and Jupiter.
  2. Zoology. an asteroidean; a starfish.

adjective

  1. starlike.

Origin of asteroid

First recorded in 1795-1805, asteroid is from the Greek word asteroeidḗs starry, starlike. See asterisk, -oid

Examples for asteroid

His game lasts until his final ship has either collided with an asteroid or lost a shootout with an enemy saucer.

The first was never heard of after thirty-six hours on the asteroid.

For the record, Deep Impact is about a comet, not an asteroid.

For an instant there was a silence in the darkness of the asteroid that was painful.

What would it take to carry people to the Moon, or Mars, or an asteroid?

The asteroid was too tiny to give him indefinite concealment.

Anything that kept them from selling an asteroid must be terrible indeed.

Thinking of longer journeys to Mars or an asteroid would require careful measurement of conditions.

But the mechanism controlling the asteroid's invisibility was not destroyed.

The asteroid Belt in the Solar System has many such gaps, created by the gravity of the Sun and Jupiter.

Word Value for asteroid
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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