multiplanetary en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English planet Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English planetary English multiplanetary From multi- + planetary.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Consisting, pertaining to, or spread across of multiple planets.
He reiterated his lofty goals “to make life multiplanetary.”
2026 June 12, Bernard Condon, “SpaceX stock soars in debut and makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire”, in AP News, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2026:As of November 10, 2015, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered, some of them in the 484 known multiplanetary systems.
2016, Priyamvada Natarajan, Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos:a multiplanetary empire
Forms
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