vegas

noun

1. Astronomy. a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.

noun

1. Lo·pe de [law-pe th e] /ˈlɔ pɛ ðɛ/, Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
2. Garcilaso de la Vega.

noun

1. a city in SE Nevada.
2. a city in central New Mexico.

noun

1. a city in SE Nevada: famous for luxury hotels and casinos. Pop: 517 017 (2003 est)

noun

1. the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and one of the most conspicuous in the N hemisphere. It is part of an optical double star having a faint companion. Distance: 25.3 light years; spectral type: A0V

noun

1. See Lope de Vega

n.

1638, bright northern star, the alpha of Lyra, from Arabic (Al Nasr) al Waqi translated variously as “the eagle of the desert” or “the falling vulture.”

1. A star in the constellation Lyra and one of the five brightest stars in the night sky. It is a white main-sequence star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of 0.04. Vega, along with Altair and Deneb, form the Summer Triangle asterism. Scientific name: Alpha Lyra.

City in southern Nevada.