Satellite
- a. Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.
- n. An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
- n. A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.