Associations to the word «Centaurus»

Wiktionary

CENTAURUS, proper noun. (constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky (and autumn of the southern sky) with the outline of a centaur. It includes the stars Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri.

Dictionary definition

CENTAURUS, noun. A conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope