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Definition of "flying saucer" []

  • Any of various unidentified flying objects of presumed extraterrestrial origin, typically described as luminous moving disks. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "flying saucer" in a sentence
  • "Various writers have commented on this, beginning with C. G. Jung who thought that the shape of the flying saucer represented a mandala or symbol of wholeness.8 For Jung the fact that people were seeing UFOs in the sky was a sign that changes in the collective psyche were imminent."
  • "The same applies to the SPRI Xerdisc, which looks like a small plastic flying saucer and can be used for upper-body, lower-body, and core exercises."
  • "The first man killed chasing a flying saucer was Thomas Mantell, although that object was eventually identified as an experimental balloon."