planethood

noun

planethood

noun

Etymology From planet + -hood. First attested in 1674 in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World by the English divine and physician Nathaniel Fairfax (1637–1690).

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Astronomy, Natural sciences The state or condition of being a planet.

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