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vega
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun vega has 2 senses
- vega(n = noun.person) lope de vega, lope felix de vega carpio - prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635); Array is a kind of dramatist, playwright
- vega(n = noun.object) Array - the brightest star in the constellation Lyra; Array is a kind of binary, binary star, double star
is a member of lyra
CIDE DICTIONARY
vega, n. [Ar. w, properly, falling: cf. F. Wéga.].
A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra. [1913 Webster]
vega, n. [Sp.].
An open tract of ground; a plain, esp. one which is moist and fertile, as those used for tobacco fields. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
vega, n. Astron. a brilliant blue star in the constellation of the Lyre.
Etymology
Sp. or med.L Vega f. Arab., = the falling vulture
ROGET THESAURUS
vega
Plain
N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.
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