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n. the nearest star to the sun; distance: 4.3 light years
Word Usage
"'Scandentes quisquis cernet de vallibus arces, ingenio muros aestimet ille meo'; and with the epithet 'proxima' in i. 22, 9, as Asisium is nearer than"