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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

astronomia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: astronomia

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Astronomy/əˈstrɒn.ə.mi/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3400 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'astronomia ci aiuta a comprendere l'universo."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The branch of science which deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole.

    "She studies astronomy and spends her nights looking through a telescope."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek astronomia, combining astron meaning 'star' and nomos meaning 'law' or 'culture'. It entered Middle English via Old French and Latin, originally denoting the science of the heavenly bodies, before developing into its modern empirical definition during the scientific revolution.

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