| 单词 | firmament |
| 释义 | firmament (once / 1698 pages) n The firmament is the curve of the sky, especially if you imagine it as a solid surface. You can describe the sky at night as a firmament shining with stars (if you're feeling poetic). The word firmament comes from the Latin firmus, or "firm," and this description of the sky as something solid reflects ancient ideas of the way the universe was constructed. The first stargazers imagined the sky as a sphere, and it wasn't until the late 1500s that the idea of an infinite universe was seriously considered. Today the word firmament is mostly literary, used to poetically describe the visual curve of the sky. WORD FAMILYfirmament: firmamental, firmaments USAGE EXAMPLESHe concerned himself with canon-building and was a significant force, for example, in vaulting F. Scott Fitzgerald to the firmament of American letters. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) There is art in ‘big data’ — in the poetic claims that it competes in volume with all the stars in the firmament. Nature(Nov 22, 2016) But Jones holds a special place even in this firmament. Los Angeles Times(Nov 19, 2016) n the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected Syn|Hyper celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin surface the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object |
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