GALILEO as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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)
   Synonym(s)
   • Galileo Galilei (what does Galileo Galilei mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Galileo is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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