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

2 senses of copernicus

Sense 1
Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik -- (Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Sense 2
Copernicus -- (a conspicuous crater on the Moon)
       INSTANCE OF=> lunar crater -- (a crater on the Earth's Moon)