Definitions for copernicuskoʊˈpɜr nɪ kəs, kə-
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Co•per•ni•cuskoʊˈpɜr nɪ kəs, kə-(n.)
Nicolaus (Mikołaj Kopernik), 1473–1543, Polish astronomer who promulgated the theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun (the Coper′nican Sys`tem).
Category: Biography
Princeton's WordNet
Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik(noun)
Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
Copernicus(noun)
a conspicuous crater on the Moon
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