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Definition: Astral |
AstralAdjective1. Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; "an astral body"; "stellar light". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "astral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Astral \As"tral\, adjective. [Latin astralis, from astrum star, Greek ?: compare to French astral. See Star.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Astral |
Dream Interpretation | Dreams of the astral, denote that your efforts and plans will culminate in worldly success and distinction. A spectre or picture of your astral self brings heart-rending tribulation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ASTRAL | English | Alliance for Strategic Token Ring Advancement and Leadership | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AstralSynonym: stellar (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Immateriality | Personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit. (soul); astral body; immaterialism; spiritualism, spiritualist. |
Noun: immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity, spirituality; inextension; astral plane. | |
Necessity | Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice. |
World | Solar, heliacal; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral; astral; nebular; uranic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Astral |
| English words defined with "astral": stellar, Stellary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "astral": Astral Body, Astral Spirits. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Astral" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (astral, of a star, sideral, star, star-), German (astral, astrally, stellar), Portuguese (astral), Romanian (astral, stellar), Spanish (astral), Swedish (astral). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Astral bodies drip like wine (Impressive Instant; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzai) He'll fly his astral plane. (Legend Of A Mind; performing artist: Moody Blues) | |
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| "Astral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 64.52% of the time. "Astral" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 64.52% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 35.48% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | Astral Media Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "astral": astral bodies ♦ astral body ♦ astral lamp ♦ astral plane ♦ astral spirits. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "astral": astral-travelling. | |
Ending with "astral": sub-astral. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
astral projection | 641 | theme astral | 17 |
carta astral | 280 | astral chat | 17 |
astral | 217 | astral sex | 15 |
astral travel | 135 | astral bead | 15 |
carta astral gratis | 125 | astral body | 15 |
astral mapa | 75 | astral gratuito mapa | 15 |
astral plane | 54 | astral pulse | 14 |
astral viaje | 49 | astral traveling | 13 |
astral tournament | 49 | astral carta gratuita | 13 |
astral reflection | 40 | astral nymphets | 13 |
astral project | 29 | astral grátis mapa | 12 |
astral media | 28 | astral pool | 12 |
astral voyage | 26 | astral desdoblamiento | 11 |
astral gratis mapa | 24 | astral viagem | 11 |
astral proyeccion | 21 | astral projeção | 11 |
arai astral aurora | 21 | astral projection technique | 10 |
astral photo | 20 | astral clairvoyant | 9 |
astral line | 20 | astral ro | 8 |
astral astrologia carta | 20 | astral aurora | 8 |
astral cigar | 18 | arai astral star flag | 8 |
arai astral tempest | 8 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "astral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | yjor (sidereal, stellar, stellate, stellated, stellular), enigmatik (baffling, cabalistic, cabbalistic, enigmatic, inscrutable, mystic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كوكبي (planetary, stellate), نجمي الشكل (asteroid), نجمي (star, staring, starry, stellar), وهمي (airy, airy fairy, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), رفيع (elevated, fine, great, polite, sublime, superlative, supreme, thin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | звезден (sidereal, star, starlight, starlit, starry, stellar), астрален. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 星 (STAR, STARS, stellar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hvìzdný (sidereal, stellar, stellated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | astraal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ستاره ای (Asteroid, Planetary, Starry), علوی (Celestial, Empyreal, Ethereal), شبیه ستاره (Asteroid, Stellar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | astral. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sternförmig (asteroid, radial, radially, starlike, star-shaped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αστρικόσ (sidereal, stellar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כוכבי (planetary, starlike, stellar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csillagokra vonatkozó, csillagászati (astronomic, astronomical), csillag (asterisk, star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | astrale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 星気" (astral body), 天"写真 (photograph of an astral body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいきたい (astral body), て"たいしゃし" (photograph of an astral body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 별이 많은. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rollageagh (astronomical, sidereal, starlight, starlit, stellar, stellated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astralay astral. (various references) astral (stellar), stelar (star, starry, stellar). (various references) звездный (sidereal, starlight, starlit, starry, star-spangled, stellar), астральный. (various references) astralni, zvezdani (sidereal, stellar). (various references) astral. (various references) astral. (various references) yıldızlara ait (stellar), yıldızlı (starred, starry), yıldız (planetary, sidereal, star). (various references) зоряний (sidereal, star, starlight, starlit, starry, stellar), астральна лампа, астральний. (various references) serol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | astrum, siderus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "astral": astrally, astrals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "astral": cadastral, diastral, gastral, plastral. (additional references) | |
Words containing "astral": cadastrally. (additional references) | |
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"Astral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acral, amstral, Amthaal, Ashtal, asprella, asta, Astar, Astarac, astoral, astr, astra, Astrac, Astrel, astria, Astrilly, astrin, astrol, Astrov, Attal, Atwal, Azrael, dastra, Easteal, estal, estral, fastrac, Fastrak, fastrax, hasrul, Hastrup, Kastrup, oestral, oestriol, Ostra, Rastrelli, Saral, satal, Satpal, satrai, saural. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "astral" (pronounced a"strul) |
| 5 | -s t r u l | ancestral, austral, minstrel, mistral, nostril, orchestral. |
| 4 | -t r u l | central, mitral, neutral, ventral. |
| 3 | -r u l | amoral, antiviral, apparel, aural, auroral, Balmoral, barrel, Beryl, boral, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, cerebral, choral, coral, feral, floral, gambrel, goral, immoral, imperil, integral, intramural, laurel, Loral, moral, mural, neural, octahedral, oral, peril, plural, quarrel, rural, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, vertebral, viral, virile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: altars, ratals, talars, tarsal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: altar, artal, atlas, ratal, talar, talas. | |
-2 letters: aals, alar, alas, alts, arts, lars, last, lats, rats, salt, slat, star, tala, tars, tsar. | |
-3 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, alt, ars, art, lar, las, lat, ras, rat, sal, sat, tar, tas. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, ar, as, at, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: alastor, astrals, astylar, austral, gastral, hartals, lariats, latrias, stratal, tarsals. | |
+2 letters: agrestal, alarmist, alastors, arbalest, arbalist, asternal, astragal, astrally, australs, caltraps, claustra, diastral, flatcars, fractals, gastrula, laterals, lazarets, loadstar, naturals, palestra, partials, pastoral, pastural, plastral, rattails, salariat, salutary, spatular, stalwart, travails, trehalas. | |
+3 letters: acrylates, adulators, aerialist, alabaster, alarmists, albatross, alterants, ancestral, antisolar, arbalests, arbalists, arterials, artisanal, assaulter, astraddle, astragals, astrolabe, australes, barbitals, bastardly, betrayals, brantails, cadastral, calyptras, cartloads, claptraps, claustral, dastardly, escalator, estuarial, flatwares, gastrulae, gastrular, gastrulas, kalyptras, lacerates, lapstrake, laudators, laureates, loadstars, magistral, malaperts, maltreats, materials, palaestra, palestrae, palestras, palpators, parietals, pastorale, pastorali, pastorals, placaters, pratfalls, primatals, psalteria, racialist, rascality, rataplans, rationals, relaxants, salariats, saleratus, salivator, saltatory, saltwater, sartorial, satirical, saturable, solfatara, stalwarts, taffarels, taffrails, tailraces, tarlatans, tarletans, thesaural, transaxle, translate, trapballs, traversal, ultrafast, ultrasafe, valerates, valuators, varietals. | |
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