Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun halley

1 sense of halley

Sense 1
Halley, Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley -- (English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)