World
Nouns
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world, creation, nature, universe
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earth, globe, wide world
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cosmos
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kosmos
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terraqueous globe, sphere
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macrocosm, megacosm
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music of the spheres. heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean
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starry cope, starry heaven, starry host
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firmament
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Midgard
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supersensible regions
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varuna
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vault of heaven, canopy of heaven
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celestial spaces. heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids
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nebulae
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galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus
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photosphere, chromosphere
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solar system
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planet, planetoid
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comet
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satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen
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aerolite, meteor
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planetary ring
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falling star, shooting star
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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
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uranography, uranology
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cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony
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eidouranion, orrery
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geodesy etc. (measurement) Measurement
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star gazing, star gazer
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astronomer
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observatory
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planetarium.
Adjectives
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cosmic, cosmical
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mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun
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sublunary, subastral. solar, heliacal
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lunar
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celestial, heavenly, sphery
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starry, stellar
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sidereal, sideral
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astral
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nebular
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uranic.
Adverbs
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in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun.
Phrases
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earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]
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green calm below, blue quietness above" [Whittier]
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hanging in a golden chain this pendant hanging in a golden chain this pendant World" [Paradise Lost]
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silently as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]
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some touch of nature's genial glow" [Scott]
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this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]
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through knowledge we behold the World's through knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser].