Antonyms for sphere

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sfeer

Phonetic Transcription : sfɪər

Definition of sphere

Origin : 1530s, restored spelling of Middle English spere (c.1300) "space, conceived as a hollow globe about the world," from Old French espere (13c.), from Latin sphaera "globe, ball, celestial sphere," from Greek sphaira "globe, ball," of unknown origin.
Sense of "ball, body of globular form" is from late 14c. Medieval astronomical meaning "one of the 8 (later 10) concentric, transparent, hollow globes believed to revolve around the earth and carry the heavenly bodies" is from late 14c.; the supposed harmonious sound they made rubbing against one another was the music of the spheres (late 14c.). Meaning "range of something" is first recorded c.1600 (e.g. sphere of influence, 1885, originally in reference to Anglo-German colonial rivalry in Africa). A spherical number (1640s) is one whose powers always terminate in the same digit as the number itself (5,6, and 10 are the only ones).

noun globular object
noun domain of influence

Example sentences :

There was nothing in her behaviour to indicate a consciousness of error from her sphere.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

I've been living very economically for the sphere that seemed open to me.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

Moreover, it did not take him out of his own sphere—the sphere which is watched by the police.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

Alice herself was to be removed from the sphere of her humble calling.
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Immediately both dived, and became as it were non-existent on this sphere.
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

The liberal party appears to be vanquished in the sphere of economics.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Hilary could see its red path as it struck the sphere of the machine.
Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner

At any rate, whatever the explanation, the sphere was emitting men!
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

You tell me we ought to enlarge our sphere of sensation, and to extend the sources of happiness.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

Synonyms for sphere

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