Vega

¹

[ vee-guh, vey- ]

noun

1. Astronomy. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.

Vega

²

[ vey-guh; Spanish ve-gah ]

noun

1. Lo·pe de [law, -pe , th, e], Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
2. Garcilaso de la Vega.

Vega

¹

/ ˈveɪɡə; ˈbeɣa /

noun

1. See Lope de Vega

Vega

²

/ ˈviːɡə /

noun

1. the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and one of the most conspicuous in the N hemisphere. It is part of an optical double star having a faint companion. Distance: 25.3 light years; spectral type: A0V

Vega

/ vē′gə,vā′gə /

1. A star in the constellation Lyra and one of the five brightest stars in the night sky. It is a white main-sequence star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of 0.04. Vega, along with Altair and Deneb, form the Summer Triangle asterism. Scientific name: Alpha Lyra.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vega¹

1630–40; < Medieval Latin < Arabic ( al-nasr-al- ) wāqiʿ (the) falling (eagle), originally designating the three stars Alpha, Epsilon and Zeta Lyrae

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vega¹

C17: from Medieval Latin, from Arabic ( al nasr ) al wāqi, literally: the falling (vulture), that is, the constellation Lyra

Example Sentences

He ran just four events this season, qualifying as high as ninth and making back-to-back passes at 323 and 324 mph this month in Las Vegas before deciding to give up his ride in Pomona.

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Vega was turning left into a parking lot at Sherman Circle when the driver of the Mercedes-Benz struck the right side of his vehicle, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

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But one day, soon after his family moved from Hawaii to Las Vegas, his new youth football team was in need of a quarterback.

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The tour also runs through several music festivals and will include stops at Sick New World in Las Vegas, I-DAYS in Italy and Novarock in Austria.

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Nine months after U2 wrapped its 40-date residency at Sphere, the veteran Irish rock band is back at the dome-shaped venue just off the Las Vegas Strip.

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