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Celestial vs Uranian - What's the difference?

celestial | uranian |

As adjectives the difference between celestial and uranian

is that celestial is relating to heaven in a religious sense while uranian is (astronomy) (uranian).

As a noun celestial

is an inhabitant of heaven or celestial can be (obsolete|sometimes|capitalized) a native of china.

celestial

English

Alternative forms

* (qualifier)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) celestial, from .

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to heaven in a religious sense.
    • (Milton)
  • Relating to the sky or space.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The twelve celestial signs.
  • (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
  • * {{quote-journal , year=1974 , date=February , title=A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee , journal=Ensign citation
    • , passage=We are now living and obeying celestial' laws that will make us candidates for ' celestial glory.}}
  • * {{quote-journal , year=1997 , date=November , author=Richard J. Maynes , title=A Celestial Connection to Your Teenage Years , journal=Ensign citation
    • , passage=How will you make it through your teenage years spiritually prepared for your celestial' future? How will you connect your ' celestial goals with your everyday life?}}
    Synonyms
    * (Relating to heaven in a religious sense) divine, heavenly, spiritual
    Derived terms
    * celestial body * Celestial Empire * celestial equator * celestial globe * celestial guidance * celestial horizon * celestial latitude * celestial longitude * celestial navigation * celestial peace * celestial pole * celestial sphere

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inhabitant of heaven.
  • * {{quote-book , year=1913 , author=Horace Coffin Stanton , title=Telepathy of the Celestial World citation
    • , passage=For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that. }}

    Etymology 2

    From Celestial Empire, a formerly used name for China.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, sometimes, capitalized) A native of China.
  • * {{quote-book , year=1897 , author=Joseph Llewelyn Thomas , title=Journeys Among the Gentle Japs in the Summer of 1895 , chapter=The North Pacific citation
    • , passage=Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China.}}
  • (obsolete, slang) by extension, an East Asian person.

    • References

    * * * Kingdoms of Glory on LDS.org. ----

    uranian

    English

    (wikipedia Uranian)

    Noun

    (s)
  • (science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.
  • A male homosexual.
  • * 2008 , Thomas Bohache, Christology From the Margins , page 194
    • One who engages in the love that dare not speak its name. Uranian . Homosexual. Invert. Gay. Lesbian. Queer.
  • * 2003 , Chuck Stewart, Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook , page 138
    • Carpenter was disappointed by these meetings with Whitman but began to integrate a positive homosexual view into his socialist writings. Carpenter saw the Uranian (homosexual) spirit to be more enlightened than that of the common man and believed that Uranians were the new prophets of the coming social revolution.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • A 19th century term that referred to a person of a third sex.
  • Of or relating to a group of German homosexual artists.
  • (rare) homosexual
  • * 2003 , Chuck Stewart, Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook , page 138
    • Carpenter was disappointed by these meetings with Whitman but began to integrate a positive homosexual view into his socialist writings. Carpenter saw the Uranian (homosexual) spirit to be more enlightened than that of the common man and believed that Uranians were the new prophets of the coming social revolution.
  • * 1996 , Linda Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford , page 134
    • Before these ideals would once again become available to "homosexuality" as a positive social identity, however, the Uranian modality of male love would be rejected by the avant-garde itself as an outworn fashion.
  • * 1983 , Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo, Uranian worlds: a reader's guide to alternative sexuality in science fiction and fantasy
    • The title of this bibliography is derived from the nineteenth- century word for homosexual — Uranian . The word was coined by the early German homosexual emancipationist, Karl Ulrichs, and was popularly used through the First World War.
  • (astronomy) Of or relating to the planet Uranus.