starry firmament
1firmament — Synonyms and related words: Caelus, air, azure, blue sky, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, cope, empyrean, ether, heaven, heavens, hyaline, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven, the blue, the blue serene, vault, vault of heaven, welkin …
2firmament — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sky, vault of heaven;welkin, empyrean; starry cope. See universe. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sky, heaven, vault of heaven, atmosphere; see heaven 1 , sky . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. sky, heavens …
3firmament — n sky, heaven, heavens, vault of heaven, vault, Dial. lift, Chiefly Literary. welkin; empyrean, air, ether, celestial sphere, starry host; infinity, space, the void, universe, stratosphere; azure, the blue, cerulean, blue sky, the wild blue… …
4Donnerstag aus Licht — Karlheinz Stockhausen in 2005 Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, three acts, and a farewell, and was the first of seven to be composed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der… …
5Cosmos — For other uses, see Cosmos (disambiguation). The Ancient and Medieval cosmos as depicted in Peter Apian s Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539). In the general sense, a cosmos is an orderly or harmonious system. It originates from the Greek term κόσμος… …
6Conquest of Space — DVD cover Directed by Byron Haskin Produced by George Pal …
7cosmos — c.1200 (but not popular until 1848, as a translation of Humboldt s Kosmos), from Gk. kosmos order, good order, orderly arrangement, a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally to dispose, prepare, but …
8Grant, Sir Robert — (1779 1838) Born in India, the son of Charles Grant, the Indian philanthropist and statesman, he graduated M.A. from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1804 and was called to the bar in 1807. Several times member of Parliament, his major… …
9Hebrew astronomy — refers to any astronomy written in Hebrew or by Hebrew speakers, or translated into Hebrew. It also includes an unusual type of literature from the Middle Ages: works written in Arabic but transcribed in the Hebrew alphabet. It includes a range… …
10World — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:World >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 world world creation nature universe Sgm: N 1 earth earth globe wide world Sgm: N 1 cosmos cosmos Sgm: N 1 kosmos kosmos …