Orb

/ɔɹb/ · noun

Meaning

A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.

Definitions by Sense

1. A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
2. Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
3. (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
4. An orbit of an heavenly body
5. (rare) The time period of an orbit
6. (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
7. (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
8. (rare) A sphere of action.

Example Sentences

In the small orb of one particular tear.

Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.

The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.

You seem to me as Dian in her orb.

In orbs / Of circuit inexpressible they stood, / Orb within orb.

Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.

A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.

Painfully, he forced his hot eyelids to unclose, and his distended orbs sought for some object whereon to fix; they met the patch of grass, yet red with the blood of Walter Maynard.

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Word Forms

• orbs
• orbing
• orbed

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