Canopus

American  

[kuh-noh-puhs] / kəˈnoʊ pəs /

noun

1. Astronomy. a first-magnitude star in the constellation Carina: the second brightest star in the heavens.

2. an ancient seacoast city in Lower Egypt, 15 miles (24 km) E of Alexandria.

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Canopus ¹ British  

/ kəˈnəʊpəs /

noun

1. the brightest star in the constellation Carina and the second brightest star in the sky. Visual magnitude: -0.7; spectral type: F0II; distance: 313 light years

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Canopus ² British  

/ kəˈnəʊpəs /

noun

1. a port in ancient Egypt east of Alexandria where granite monuments have been found inscribed with the name of Rameses II and written in languages similar to those of the Rosetta stone

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Canopic
  adjective

Example Sentences

Al-Neyadi’s astronaut toy, nicknamed Suhail, Arabic for the brilliant star Canopus, also accompanied al-Mansoori on his 2019 space station mission.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2023

Park your car at the small lot next to Canopus Lake.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2020

They see it as a set of deliberate choices, and this interpretation can be stoked by the writer offering confident justifications in interviews, as Lessing did for Canopus in Argos.

From Nature • Oct. 7, 2019

Johor is an emissary of the empire of Canopus, sent to help the development of Rohanda.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2013

The optical sensors seem to have mistaken Alpha and Beta Centauri for Canopus.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan