Synonyms for sphere
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sfeer |
| Phonetic Transcription : sfɪər |
Top 10 synonyms for sphere Other synonyms for the word sphere
- big blue marble
- champaign
- class
- compass
- demesne
- department
- dominion
- earth
- employment
- function
- globe
- globule
- ground
- jungle
- jurisdiction
- level
- neck of the woods
- orbit
- pale
- pellet
- pill
- position
- precinct
- province
- range
- rank
- rondure
- round
- station
- stomping ground
- stratum
- terrain
- territory
- turf
- walk of life
- zone
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for sphere
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