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planetful

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English

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Etymology

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From planet +‎ -ful.

Noun

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planetful (plural planetfuls or planetsful)

  1. 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.