Definitions for Orion

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Orion O·ri·on

Spelling: [uh-rahy-uh n]

IPA: /əˈraɪ ən/

Orion is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Orion (inoor).

Definitions for Orion

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
2. Astronomy. the Hunter, a constellation lying on the celestial equator between Canis Major and Taurus, containing the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
3. Military. a land-based U.S. Navy patrol plane with four turboprop engines, used to detect, track, and destroy enemy submarines and armed with missiles, torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.

Examples for Orion

You can find the place where they alighted in the sky, just ahead of Orion.

Printing was a step downward, for it was a trade, and Orion felt it keenly.

Orion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.

"My God, My Glock, and my Gallant" Above hardpan deserts, red dawns chased away Orion, the Hunter, day after night.

Orion could pay nothing on his mortgage—barely the interest.

Orion had asked him to write and produce a comedy about a country club.

Orion represents the first step towards human exploration of other planets, like Mars.

Orion was a Union abolitionist and might lead him to mend his doctrines.

Along with Lewis, Orion is one of the few minority escorts to be seen.

Orion Clemens in the mean time had married and removed to Keokuk.