wanderstar

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wanderstar

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From wander + star, probably a calque of German Wandelstern (“planet”). Compare the historic term wandering star, like the German term ultimately a calque from Ancient Greek.

noun wanderstars

A wandering star or other similar heavenly body; a comet; meteor; planet. He had thumbed about in Chants of a Wander-Star last night in bed and wondered about the career of that marginal versifier — born out of his proper time and now remembered by Ackley in an era even less proper.

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@misc{wanderstar_2026,
  title = {wanderstar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wanderstar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}