Crossword-Solution: CAPELLA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Capella | n. | A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CAPELLA | anagram | LAPLACE |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CAPELLA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Brightest star in Auriga | 1 answer |
| Star whose name means "little goat" | 1 answer |
| Star name meaning "she-goat" in Latin | 1 answer |
| Star in Auriga | 1 answer |
| One of the 10 brightest stars | 1 answer |
| It's 45 light-years away | 1 answer |
| Giant star in Auriga | 1 answer |
| Double star in Auriga | 1 answer |
| Brightest star in Auriga, from the Latin for "little she-goat" | 1 answer |
| Bright yellow star. | 1 answer |
| Bright star in Auriga | 1 answer |
| Binary star in Auriga | 1 answer |
| Auriga's brightest star | 1 answer |
| Alpha star in Auriga | 1 answer |
| A yellow, first-magnitude star. | 1 answer |
| Little Nanny Goat | 2 answers |
| STAR of the first magnitude | 9 answers |
| Auriga Star in | 10 answers |
| Brightest star in Scorpio | 10 answers |
| BINARY STAR | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CAPELLA (5)
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.
That night the star rose later, for its proper eastward motion had carried it some way across Leo towards Virgo, and its brightness was so great that the sky became a luminous blue as it rose, and every star was hidden in its turn, save only Jupiter near the zenith, Capella, Aldebaran, Sirius and the pointers of the Bear.
Not until the fifth century of our era did it timidly appear in the thoughts of Martianus Capella: then it was again lost to sight for a thousand years, until in the fifteenth century, distorted and imperfect, it appeared in the writings of Cardinal Nicholas de Cusa.
Capella hung in the west, Vega was rising, and the seven glittering points of the Great Bear swept overhead in their stately circle about the Pole.
King and myself should ride to Castro, and thence across the island to the Capella de Cucao, situated on the west coast.
Quotes with CAPELLA (3)
I compared what was really known about the stars with the account of creation as told in Genesis. I found that the writer of the inspired book had no knowledge of astronomy -- that he was as ignorant as a Choctaw chief -- as an Eskimo driver of dogs. Does any one imagine that the author of Genesis knew anything about the sun -- its size? that he was acquainted with Sirius, the North Star, with Capella, or that he knew anything of the clusters of stars so far away that their l…
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1956–2018).