Recent Examples on the WebThe novelty of a concrete pier was celebrated in a September 1909 gala opening, with a playlet starring Queen Santa Monica and Rex Neptune.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 Early this morning, a planetary parade with six of our neighbors will rise in tandem: Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2024 In fact, Neptune, the farthest planet from the sun, is never visible to the naked eye.—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024 For more reference on this, check which sign and astrological house Jupiter and Neptune occupy in your birth chart.—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024 Uranus and Neptune, meanwhile—the most remote of the group—will require high-power binoculars or a telescope.—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 28 May 2024 The parade will start June 3, when Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be aligned, according to Star Walk Astronomical News, a planetarium phone app.—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024 During the solar spectacle, the orbits of Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune and Saturn will bring the six planets to the same side of the sun.—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 May 2024 The team of astronomers also discovered two new planets orbiting a star like our Sun, one of which is a sub-Saturn planet with a mass and radius that are somewhere between those of Neptune and Saturn.—Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 23 May 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Latin Neptunus
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of Neptune was
before the 12th century
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