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planetful en · NOUN

Etymology

From planet + -ful.

Meanings

  1. As many as a planet can or does hold.
    • Such people were never completely untraceable in two hundred planetfuls of nonentities. 1954, Edna Mayne Hull, Planets for Sale, page 119:
    • You know that Twilight Zone episode, the one where the string-mop-head teenager lives as an outcast on a planetful of regular humans, and the regular human kid lives as an outcast on a planetful of string-mops? 1989, ACM - Issues 19-20, page 145:
    • A whole planetful of men kid themselves they're not just wasting time until they die with one football code or another. 2008, Sam de Brito, The Lost Boys, page 191:
    • One big difference between me and my literary original; I haven't the faintest desire to boss around planetsful of people. 2013, Ryk E. Spoor, Spheres of Influence:

Forms

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planetsful Number=Plur lexicographic
planetfuls Number=Plur lexicographic