Orion
Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
Astronomy. the Hunter, a constellation lying on the celestial equator between Canis Major and Taurus, containing the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
Military. a land-based U.S. Navy patrol plane with four turboprop engines, used to detect, track, and destroy enemy submarines and armed with missiles, torpedoes, mines, and depth bombs.
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How to use Orion in a sentence
Orion represents the first step towards human exploration of other planets, like Mars.
NASA Launches Orion in Fiery Spectacle | Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOrion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.
To Infinity and Beyond! NASA’s Orion Mission Blasts Off | Matthew R. Francis | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLewis waves at Tony Orion, a nominee up for Best Bear/Cub whose biceps have stretched his black mesh jersey to a shine.
And The Escort of The Year Is… Backstage at The Sex Oscars | Scott Bixby | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlong with Lewis, Orion is one of the few minority escorts to be seen.
And The Escort of The Year Is… Backstage at The Sex Oscars | Scott Bixby | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOrion had asked him to write and produce a comedy about a country club.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon | Robert Sam Anson | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And yet there are millions of stars whose distances are even greater than the distance of the Great Nebula in Orion.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordThe River, formed of stars, flows from a source at the left foot of Orion.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusThe road got steadily worse, but Orion was clear in view ahead of me, dropping down behind Uttoxeter, and I pushed on.
The Yeoman Adventurer | George W. GoughOne day they saw Orion, a great hunter, coming toward them with his dog and his big club.
'Round the Year in Myth and Song | Florence HolbrookThey named him Orion—after the constellation, perhaps—though they changed the accent to the first syllable, calling it Orion.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine
British Dictionary definitions for Orion (1 of 2)
/ (əˈraɪən) /
Greek myth a Boeotian giant famed as a great hunter, who figures in several tales
British Dictionary definitions for Orion (2 of 2)
/ (əˈraɪən) /
a conspicuous constellation near Canis Major containing two first magnitude stars (Betelgeuse and Rigel) and a distant bright emission nebula (the Orion Nebula) associated with a system of giant molecular clouds and star formation
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Scientific definitions for Orion
[ ō-rī′ən ]
A constellation in the equatorial region of the celestial sphere, near Taurus and Gemini. Orion (the Hunter) contains the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
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