Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jan_hendrix_oort
1 sense of jan hendrix oort
Sense 1
Oort, Jan Hendrix Oort -- (Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992))
INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)