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firmament::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
| Type of | surface |
| Derivation | firmamental |
Examples of firmament
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In the age of stalemate, immigration may have a special place in the firmament.
From the washingtonpost.com
God is said to have reached into the firmament and made mankind in his own image.
From the en.wikipedia.org
But now we can hear the lightning split the firmament and see fires rend the sky.
From the guardian.co.uk
We asked some stars of the foodie firmament what they might like for Christmas.
From the guardian.co.uk
To a journalist, the Times's admitting vulnerability is a crack in the firmament.
From the time.com
Nonetheless, Obama moved upward in the Chicago civic firmament with apparent ease.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Not so Palin in her meteoric flight across the political firmament in autumn 2008.
From the independent.co.uk
Another mover-upper from the Three Star firmament is the always excellent Aquavit.
From the forbes.com
The stock has been a bright stars of the A-share firmament until its recent slide.
From the forbes.com
- Celestial sphere: the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
- The Firmament is the usual English translation of the Hebrew "raqiya`" (pronounced /raki'ja/ in English) meaning an extended solid surface or dome, considered to be a hemisphere above the ground in many Near Eastern cosmologies.
- The vault of the heavens; the sky; basis; The field or sphere of an interest or activity; In the Ptolemaic system, the eighth geocentric sphere, which carried the fixed stars
- To dream of the firmament filled with stars, denotes many crosses and almost superhuman efforts ere you reach the pinnacle of your ambition. Beware of the snare of enemies in your work. ...
- (Septuagint Greek, stereoma "the beaten or hammered thing," Latin firmamentum, "the solid thing"): In Genesis, a mysterious substance described as "separating the lower waters from the upper waters" before the separation of dry land from the rest of the lower waters. ...
- The world of space between the stars and planets.
- The sky, viewed poetically as a solid arch or vault.
- Alan Tam (Alan Tam Wing Lun)
