firmament
IPA: fˈɝmʌmʌnt
noun
- (usually uncountable, literary, poetic, also figuratively) The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.
- (countable) The field or sphere of an activity or interest.
- (uncountable, astronomy, historical) In the geocentric Ptolemaic system, the eighth celestial sphere which carried the fixed stars; (countable, by extension) any celestial sphere.
- (uncountable, obsolete except biblical) The abode of God and the angels; heaven.
- (countable, obsolete) A piece of jewellery worn in a headdress with numerous gems resembling stars in the sky.
- (countable, obsolete, also figuratively) A basis or foundation; a support.
- (countable, obsolete) The act or process of making firm or strengthening.
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Examples of "firmament" in Sentences
- The plane was flying the firmament.
- There are no birds in the firmament.
- He is the Lord of the firmament, dispeller of darkness.
- It has something to do with the entire cosmic firmament.
- This is now absolutely fixed in the literature firmament.
- But is it important to this article in the firmament of time
- This is an article about the scandals in political firmament.
- He was smart, and a rising star in the scientifical firmament.
- The earliest such scale was perhaps the movement of stars in the firmament.
- It involves the analogy of the cosmos or firmament and a rotating millstone.
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