Aquila
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Aquila
from Latin: eagle
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US officials said the ship - named Aquila II - was operating in defiance of a US "quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean".
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
On Thursday, the juvenile court of nearby Aquila suspended the couple's parental responsibility and ordered the transfer of the children to a protective home with their mother.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
One day, while shooting a Coca-Cola ad, my agent called and had me cross the street to meet with casting director Deb Aquila and the producers of “Varsity Blues” on the Paramount lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
Remarkably, this black hole is also extremely close to us -- at a mere 2000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, it is the second-closest known black hole to Earth.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Aquila had a little plot of his own, where he planted blue flowers, which bees like, and raised snails of the big, fat kind found in vineyards.
From The Childhood of Rome by Lamprey, Louise
"The brightest star in the image in the middle is Kappa Aquilae, magnitude 5.9 and the limit of naked-eye visibility from a very dark location," explained Mr Hopkins.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2013
The United Planets Cruiser C-57-D, soaring along on its quanto-gravitetic hyperdrive, is more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of Alpha Aquilae.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1918 Nova Aquilae became the brightest star in the night sky, but it started from below the eleventh magnitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first stars which I learnt from the celestial globe were alpha Lyrae, alpha Aquilae, alpha Cygni: and to this time I involuntarily regard these stars as the birth-stars of my astronomical knowledge.
From Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by Airy, George Biddell
Latitude by z and a Aquilae 17 degrees 54 minutes 10 seconds. 27th August.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Gregory, Augustus Charles
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