Definition of SATELLITE

satellite

Meanings

Plural: satellites

Noun

  • man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
  • a person who follows or serves another
  • any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
  • A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
  • A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
  • A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
  • An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
  • Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
  • A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
  • A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
  • A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.

Verb

  • broadcast or disseminate via satellite
  • To transmit by satellite.

Adjective Satellite

  • surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power
    • "a city and its satellite communities"

Origin / Etymology

From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Synonyms

artificial satellite, orbiter, planet, sat

Scrabble Score: 9

satellite is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
satellite is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
satellite is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

satellite is a valid Words With Friends word