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# planetarium

noun (a planetarium, planetariums or planetaria)

«planetarium» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A planetarium is a building with a round domed ceiling where pictures of the stars, planets and night sky are shown, so people can learn about space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#m1)
2. It can also be the machine that projects the sky onto the dome. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and on school trips, the planetarium shows the night sky, constellations and planets; it tells the reader that the scene is about space learning. Phrases: a trip to the planetarium, the planetarium show.

### Examples

- Our class went on a trip to the planetarium. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#x1)
- At the planetarium we lay back and looked at the stars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#x2)
- The planetarium show was about black holes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#x3)
- The dome of the planetarium went dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#x4)
- We saw how the sky changes through the year in the planetarium. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#x5)
- The planetarium is next to the science museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/#x6)

### Note

Countable; plural «planetariums» (common) or «planetaria» (formal). Say plan-uh-TAIR-ee-um. A planetarium shows a picture of the sky; an observatory has real telescopes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «planetarium» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/planetarium/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«planetarium» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/planetarium.html) on Mova free.