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Sedna

noun
  1. a large planet-like object discovered in 2003, orbiting the sun but considerably beyond Pluto
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Word Origin for Sedna

C21: after the Inuit goddess of the ocean
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Historical Examples of sedna

  • Sedna is the mistress of one of the countries to which the souls go after death.

    The Central Eskimo

    Franz Boas

  • Meantime the storm subsided, for the fulmars thought Sedna was drowned.

  • They have since lived in the land of Adlivun, of which Sedna is the mistress.

  • Sedna could not long resist such wooing and they went together over the vast sea.

  • He killed the fulmar, took Sedna into his boat, and they quickly left the country which had brought so much sorrow to Sedna.