planetful
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]planetful (plural planetfuls or planetsful)
- As many as a planet can or does hold.
- 1954, Edna Mayne Hull, Planets for Sale, page 119:
- Such people were never completely untraceable in two hundred planetfuls of nonentities.
- 1989, ACM - Issues 19-20, page 145:
- You know that Twilight Zone episode, the one where the string-mop-head teenager lives as an outcast on a planetful of regular humans, and the regular human kid lives as an outcast on a planetful of string-mops?
- 2008, Sam de Brito, The Lost Boys, page 191:
- A whole planetful of men kid themselves they're not just wasting time until they die with one football code or another.
- 2013, Ryk E. Spoor, Spheres of Influence:
- One big difference between me and my literary original; I haven't the faintest desire to boss around planetsful of people.