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.
Scrabble Score: 9
satellite is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordsatellite is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 11
satellite is a valid Words With Friends word