music of the spheres
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A continuous, glorious, harmonious set of sounds that are not audible to ordinary human beings, said in ancient and medieval Western cosmology to be produced by the movement of the celestial bodies.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "For sure the milder planets did combine On thy auspicious horoscope to shine . . . And then, if ever, mortal ears Had heard the music of the spheres"
- "He said that, the people of their island had their ears adapted to hear "the music of the spheres . . ."."
- "Like that same mystic music of the spheres, Which no one hears, so loudly though it rings"
- "Like most dreamers, to whom it is given sometimes to hear the music of the spheres, Heyst, the wanderer of the Archipelago, had a taste for silence."
- "We once believed in the music of the spheres but now we hear silence—static and silence."
- "A further wave of fluorescent balloons gently deflated, exhaling into miniature harmonicas to breathe an eerie music of the spheres."