Sirius

American  

[sir-ee-uhs] / ˈsɪr i əs /

noun

1. Astronomy. the Dog Star, the brightest-appearing star in the heavens, located in the constellation Canis Major.

2. Classical Mythology. Also Sirius

   1. the dog of Orion.

   2. Icarius' faithful dog, who was changed into a star.

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Sirius British  

/ ˈsɪrɪəs /

noun

1. Also called: the Dog Star.   Canicula.   Sothis.  the brightest star in the sky after the sun, lying in the constellation Canis Major. It is a binary star whose companion, Sirius B , is a very faint white dwarf. Distance: 8.6 light years

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Sirius Scientific  

/ sĭr′ē-əs /

1. The brightest star seen in the night sky. It is in the constellation Canis Major. It is a white main-sequence star on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of −1.5. Sirius is a binary star, and its companion is a white dwarf star referred to as the Pup. Sirius is also known as the Dog Star. Scientific name: Alpha Canis.

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Etymology

Origin of Sirius

1325–75; Middle English < Latin Sīrius < Greek Seírios

Example Sentences

The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.

From Barron's

Large swathes of it are policed only by Sirius Patrol, a Danish special operations unit that relies primarily on dog sleds.

From BBC

Representatives for Sirius declined to comment on the financial terms of the deal.

From MarketWatch

The show’s music producer, George Drakoulias, is a master of the flawless diegetic needle drop, as when Mark S. finishes his seemingly endless project to the sound of The Alan Parsons Project’s banger “Sirius.”

From Salon

It came loaded with a subscription to the Sirius radio service, featuring a channel devoted entirely to Bruce called E Street Radio.

From The Wall Street Journal