world

Roget category 318

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.1. Matter in general
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#318. World

noun

world, creation, nature, universe — earth, globe, wide 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 etc. (measurement) 466 — star gazing, star gazer^† — astronomer — observatory — planetarium.

adjective

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.

adverb

in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun.

phrase

die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht [G.] — earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of 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 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 through knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

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