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firmament /ˈfəːməm(ə)nt /noun literaryThe heavens or sky: thunder shakes the firmament figurative one of the great stars in the American golfing firmament...- In the sky, the Pole Star, around which the firmament appears to turn, has been styled the ‘navel of the Heavens'.
- Sometimes the lightening forked across the sky like a crack in the dark firmament.
- They're coveted by a generation too young to remember the designer's heyday, when she was one of the brightest stars in the fashion firmament, turning out exuberant, fantastical creations.
Synonyms the sky, heaven, the blue, the wide blue yonder, the azure, the heavens, the skies literary the vault (of heaven), the celestial sphere, the empyrean, the welkin Derivatives firmamental /fəːməˈmɛnt(ə)l / adjectiveOrigin Middle English: via Old French from Latin firmamentum, from firmare 'fix, settle'. |