heavenly; divine; spiritual: celestial peace of or relating to the sky: celestial bodies
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ce•les•tial /səˈlɛstʃəl/USA pronunciation
adj. [before a noun]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- of, relating to, or guided by the visible heaven:celestial navigation.
- of or relating to the spiritual heaven;
heavenly;
divine:celestial peace.
ce•les•tial
(sə les′chəl),USA pronunciation adj.
n.
ce•les′tial•ly, adv.
ce•les′tial•ness, ce•les•ti•al•i•ty
(sə les′chē al′i tē),USA pronunciation n.
- pertaining to the sky or visible heaven.
- pertaining to the spiritual or invisible heaven; heavenly;
divine:celestial bliss. - of or pertaining to celestial navigation:a celestial fix.
- Language Varieties, World History(cap.) of or pertaining to the former Chinese Empire or the Chinese people.
n.
- an inhabitant of heaven.
- World History, Language Varieties(cap.) a citizen of the Celestial Empire.
- Medieval Latin cēlestiālis, equivalent. to Latin caelesti(s) heavenly (cael(um) heaven, sky + -estis adjective, adjectival suffix) + -ālis -al1
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged angelic, seraphic, blissful, ethereal.
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'celestial body' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Roche limit
- Schwarzschild radius
- aberration
- altazimuth
- altitude
- amplitude
- areal velocity
- atmosphere
- azimuth
- ball
- brown dwarf
- celestial longitude
- comet
- culminate
- culmination
- deferent
- depression
- earthrise
- eclipse
- emersion
- epoch
- equatorial plane
- escape velocity
- galactic coordinates
- geology
- globe
- go down
- gravisphere
- gravity
- height
- hour angle
- immersion
- lamp
- lander
- line of sight
- luminary
- lunar distance
- magnitude
- map
- meridian angle
- occult
- occultation
- octant
- orb
- orbit
- parallax
- perturb
- perturbation
- planet
- polar orbit