单词	firmament
释义	firmamentfir‧ma‧ment /ˈfɜːməmənt $ ˈfɜːr-/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINfirmament Origin: 1200-1300 Late Latin firmamentum, from Latin firmare ‘to support’; ➔ FIRM1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A new star had shot into the musical firmament. He was one of the stars in the firmament, one of the brightest, and he will be missed. Instead, hesitantly, terribly afraid she was doing the wrong thing, she plucked meanings from the firmament. It dominated the world of man and was represented by the celestial firmament. My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel: thunder shakes the firmament. They were luminous planets in a remote firmament, brilliant stars shedding light on a few satellites. the firmament literary the sky or heaven
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