copernican

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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective copernican has 2 senses

copernican(s = adj.all) Array - of radical or major importance; "a Copernican revolution in modern art"
copernican(s = adj.all) Array - according to Copernicus; "in the Copernican system the earth and other planets revolve around the sun"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

copernican, a.

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system. [1913 Webster]

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