Boötes

[ boh-oh-teez ]

/ boʊˈoʊ tiz /

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noun, genitive Bo·ö·tis

[boh-oh-tis]. /boʊˈoʊ tɪs/. Astronomy.

the Herdsman, a northern constellation between Ursa Major and Serpens, containing the bright star Arcturus.

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Origin of Boötes

1650–60; <Latin <Greek Boṓtēs literally, ox-driver

Words nearby Boötes

boot camp, boot-cut, booted, bootee, bootery, Boötes, boot-faced, booth, booth-babe, bootheel, Boothia

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How to use Boötes in a sentence

A merchant with a forked beard, "a Flandrish beaver hat, and bootes clasped fair and fetisly."
Bygone London|Frederick Ross
Your lordshipp is learned as well as I (it is bootles & I should offer you the bootes), you knowing the Latine to expounde.
Narcissus|Unknown
Charles's Wain lay inverted in the northern horizon; Bootes had driven his sparkling herd down the slope of the western sky.
The Golden Dog|William Kirby
But neither the virgin of Tegea, nor the sword-bearing Orion, 906 the companion of Bootes, will have to be beheld by thee.
Ars Amatoria, or The Art Of Love|Ovid

Whereupon ye soul of ye humiliated Rag sinketh into hys bootes, and he retireth for ever under a perpetual extinguisher.
In Bohemia with Du Maurier|Felix Moscheles

British Dictionary definitions for Boötes

Boötes

/ (bəʊˈəʊtiːz) /

noun Latin genitive Boötis (bəʊˈəʊtɪs)

a constellation in the N hemisphere lying near Ursa Major and containing the first magnitude star Arcturus

Word Origin for Boötes

C17: via Latin from Greek: ploughman, from boōtein to plough, from bous ox

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for Boötes

Boötes

[ bō-ō′tēz ]

A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Virgo and Corona Borealis. It contains the bright star Arcturus. Boötes (the Plowman or Herdsman) is one of the earliest recorded constellations.