world; cosmos; kosmos†; terraqueous globe†, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm†;
music of the spheres.
heavens, sky, welkin†, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry
host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions†; varuna; vault of
heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces.
heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way,
galactic circle, via lactea [Lat.], ame no kawa [Jap.].
sun, orb of day, Apollo†, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar
system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana,
silver-footed queen; aerolite†, meteor; planetary ring; falling star,
shooting star; meteorite, uranolite†.
constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big
Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt,
Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.
colures†, equator, ecliptic, orbit.
[Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology†;
cosmology, cosmography†, cosmogony; eidouranion†, orrery; geodesy &c
(measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer†; astronomer; observatory;
planetarium.
Adj. cosmic, cosmical†; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious†,
terraqueous†, terrene, terreous†, telluric, earthly, geotic†, under the
sun; sublunary†, subastral†.
solar, heliacal†; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery†; starry,
stellar; sidereal, sideral†; astral; nebular; uranic.
Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the
sun.
Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht [G.]; earth is but the
frozen echo of the silent voice of God [Hageman]; green calm below,
blue quietness above [Whittier]; hanging in a golden chain this pendant
World [Paradise Lost]; nothing in nature is unbeautiful [Tennyson];
silently as a dream the fabric rose [Cowper]; some touch of nature's
genial glow [Scott]; this majestical roof fretted with golden fire
[Hamlet]; through knowledge we behold the World's creation [Spenser].