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Aug 24, 2010 This week's theme Random words This week's words fluvial sidereal orison macerate sward Read it today Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg sidereal PRONUNCIATION: (sy-DEE-ree-uhl) MEANING: adjective: 1. Relating to the stars. 2. Measured with reference to the apparent motion of the stars. For example, sidereal time. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sidus (star). USAGE: "The silvery, coarse grain of Maisel's prints in negative makes it hard to tell whether they present day or night views. In several, a darkness looms different from that of sidereal night." Kenneth Baker; 'Home Movies' Not Like the Ones Your Dad Made; San Francisco Chronicle; Apr 14, 2007. Explore "sidereal" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! -Philip of Macedon, king, father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BCE)

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