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Great Dog

American  

noun

Astronomy.
  1. the constellation Canis Major.


Great Dog British  

noun

  1. the English name for Canis Major

"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

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Standing by the Hunter’s foot, the Great Dog is an easy-to-find constellation visible from most areas of the world, thanks to being positioned just south of the celestial equator.

From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023

Under the headline “Arrival of the Great Dog Judge,” one article reported that he had crossed the Atlantic “and is now quartered at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel.”

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2015

It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

To one of them they gave the name of the Great Bear; to another, the Little Bear; to another, the Great Dog; and so on.

From The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

The constellation Canis Major, the Great Dog, is remarkable for containing Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

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