Aldebaran

From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان‎ (ad-dabarān, “the follower”) (because it follows the Pleiades).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /alˈdɛbəɹən/

Aldebaran

1. (astronomy) One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:

     To telle riht as he began, / The ferste sterre Aldeboran, / The cliereste and the moste of alle, / Be rihte name men it calle […]

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:

     The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red.

   • 2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, in The Guardian:

     The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.

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• IPA^(key): /al.də.ba.ʁɑ̃/

Aldebaran

1. (astronomy) Aldebaran
   • 1854, Gérard de Nerval, ‘Sylvie’, Les Filles du feu:

     Tour à tour bleue et rose comme l'astre trompeur d’Aldebaran, c'était Adrienne ou Sylvie, – c'étaient les deux moitiés d'un seul amour.

     Blue and pink by turns like the deceptive star of Aldebaran, it was Adrienne and Sylvie – they were the two halves of a single love.

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1. (astronomy) Aldebaran

From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان‎ (ad-dabarān, “the follower”) (because it follows the Pleiades).

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1. Alternative spelling of Aldebarã