Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

World

Nouns
  • 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, 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) Measurement
  • star gazing, star gazer
  • astronomer
  • observatory
  • planetarium.
Adjectives
  • 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.
Adverbs
  • in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun.
Phrases
  • 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]
  • 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].