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

1 sense of galileo

Sense 1
Galileo, Galileo Galilei -- (Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)