platonic_solid (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *Platonic solid*:
NOUN	shape	Platonic solid, regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, ideal solid	any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

English > *Platonic solid*: 1 sense > noun 1, shape
Meaning	Any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent.
Synonyms	regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, ideal solid
Narrower	cube, regular hexahedron	A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
	regular dodecahedron	A dodecahedron with twelve regular pentagons as faces
	regular icosahedron	An icosahedron with twenty equilateral triangles as faces
	regular octahedron	An octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces
	regular tetrahedron	A tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces
Broader	polyhedron	A solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces
Spanish	poliedro regular
Catalan	poliedre regular, políedre regular

HyperDic: platonic_solid