EGAVE

orb

About 0.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
  2. noun 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. noun A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere.
  4. noun An orbit of an heavenly body
  5. noun The time period of an orbit.
  6. noun The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity.
  7. noun Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel.
  8. noun A sphere of action.

Similar words

globe ball eyeball planet earth sphere world eye round asphere

Often followed by

of and in is that to which was protocol

Word family

orbed orbing orbs

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