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Rigel

Syllabification: (Ri·gel)
Pronunciation: /ˈrījəl, -gəl/
Astronomy
Definition of Rigel
  • the seventh brightest star in the sky, and the brightest in the constellation Orion. It is a blue supergiant nearly sixty thousand times as luminous as our sun.

Origin:

from Arabic rijl 'foot (of Orion)'

Rigel in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Rigel in the British & World English dictionary
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