orb
/ɔɹb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In the small orb of one particular tear."
- "Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled."
- "The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs."
- "You seem to me as Dian in her orb."
- "In orbs / Of circuit inexpressible they stood, / Orb within orb."
- "Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɔɹb/
- British English: /ɔːb/