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"text": "And thei that be wiſe, ſhal ſhine, as the brightnes of the firmament: & they that turne to righteouſnes, ſhal ſhine as the ſtarres, for euer and euer.",
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"text": "[T]his moſt excellent Canopie the ayre, looke you, this braue orehanging firmament, this maieſticall roofe fretted with golden fire, why it appeareth nothing to me but a foule and peſtilent congregation of vapoures.",
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"text": "Now to ye all, be firmaments to ſtars, / Be ſtars to Firmaments, and as you are / Splendent, ſo be fixed, not wandring, nor / Irregular, both keeping courſe together, [...]",
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"text": "And God ſaid, Let there be a firmament in the midſt of the waters: and let it diuide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament; and diuided the waters, which were under the firmament, from the waters, which were aboue the firmament: and it was ſo. And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the ſecond day.",
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"text": "[W]hat if all / Her ſtores were op'n'd, and this Firmament / Of Hell ſhould ſpout her Cataracts of Fire, [...]",
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"text": "There are Crowns of Glory to be given us; and Garments that will make us ſhine like the Sun in the Firmament of Heaven.",
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"ref": "1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 357:",
"text": "On Nature's Alps I ſtand, / And ſee a Thouſand Firmaments beneath!",
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"ref": "1825 January, H. G. B., “The Bride of Parma”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany; […], volume XVI, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:",
"text": "And far above the gentle moon sails on / Through the blue firmament. It is a scene / That gives that spot of earth the air of Heav'n!",
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"text": "Some of his [Confucius's] philosophical principles are, [...] that the cause or principle of things must have had a co-existence with the things themselves; [...] and that the central point of influence, from which this cause chiefly acts, is the blue firmament (tien), whence its emanations are spread over the universe; [...] the sun, moon, stars, and elements, are considered also as composing the firmament, or Teen, as the immediate agents of the Deity, and as the productive powers in creation.",
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"text": "But there was no spirit of denial in Caleb, and the world seemed so wondrous to him that he was ready to accept any number of systems, like any number of firmaments, if they did not obviously interfere with the best land-drainage, solid building, correct measuring, and judicious boring (for coal).",
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"ref": "2001 December, J. Robert King, “Who are We?”, in Brian Thomsen, editor, Lancelot du Lethe, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 229:",
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"text": "The feeling I dread the most is not fear but despair—the dim, oppressive sense that the more things change, the more they stay the same; that each of us with a frozen heart \"like an old-stone savage armed\" will continue to move in darkness, lifting boulders, patrolling the firmaments of divisive anger.",
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"text": "[...] 'The Morning Star' and 'The Evening Star' have the same celestial object as Bedeutung, but present that object in different ways, perhaps in one case as the object that appears in such and such a place in the morning firmament and in the other as the object that appears in such and such a place in the evening firmament.",
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"ref": "1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 254:",
"text": "[B]etweene the ſphere of Saturne and the Firmament, there is ſuch an incredible and vaſt ſpace or diſtance (7000000. ſemidiameters of the earth, as Tycho [Brahe] calculates) void of ſtarres: [...]",
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"text": "But if we yet rise higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each of them attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firmaments and new lights, that are sunk farther in those unfathomable depths of ether, so as not to be seen by the strongest of our telescopes, we are lost in such a labyrinth of suns and worlds, and confounded with the immensity and magnificence of nature.",
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"text": "Pins tipt with Diamond Point, and head, / By which the Curls are faſtened, / In radiant Firmament ſet out, / And all over the Hood ſur-tout: [...]",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
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"neuter"
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{
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "lani"
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{
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"text": "[T]his moſt excellent Canopie the ayre, looke you, this braue orehanging firmament, this maieſticall roofe fretted with golden fire, why it appeareth nothing to me but a foule and peſtilent congregation of vapoures.",
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"text": "Now to ye all, be firmaments to ſtars, / Be ſtars to Firmaments, and as you are / Splendent, ſo be fixed, not wandring, nor / Irregular, both keeping courſe together, [...]",
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"text": "[W]hat if all / Her ſtores were op'n'd, and this Firmament / Of Hell ſhould ſpout her Cataracts of Fire, [...]",
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"ref": "1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 11:",
"text": "There are Crowns of Glory to be given us; and Garments that will make us ſhine like the Sun in the Firmament of Heaven.",
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"ref": "1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 357:",
"text": "On Nature's Alps I ſtand, / And ſee a Thouſand Firmaments beneath!",
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"ref": "1825 January, H. G. B., “The Bride of Parma”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany; […], volume XVI, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:",
"text": "And far above the gentle moon sails on / Through the blue firmament. It is a scene / That gives that spot of earth the air of Heav'n!",
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"ref": "1831, James Bell, “[Chinese Empire.] Chapter IV.”, in A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, […], volume V, Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton and Co. and Blackie and Son; […], →OCLC, page 34:",
"text": "Some of his [Confucius's] philosophical principles are, [...] that the cause or principle of things must have had a co-existence with the things themselves; [...] and that the central point of influence, from which this cause chiefly acts, is the blue firmament (tien), whence its emanations are spread over the universe; [...] the sun, moon, stars, and elements, are considered also as composing the firmament, or Teen, as the immediate agents of the Deity, and as the productive powers in creation.",
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"ref": "1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXIV, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book III, page 46:",
"text": "But there was no spirit of denial in Caleb, and the world seemed so wondrous to him that he was ready to accept any number of systems, like any number of firmaments, if they did not obviously interfere with the best land-drainage, solid building, correct measuring, and judicious boring (for coal).",
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"ref": "2001 December, J. Robert King, “Who are We?”, in Brian Thomsen, editor, Lancelot du Lethe, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 229:",
"text": "On its far side, on the very horizon of the world, stood purple mountains, so tall and sharp that they bridged the firmaments.",
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"ref": "2002, Barbara Kingsolver, “Small Wonder”, in Small Wonder: Essays, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, published 2009, →ISBN:",
"text": "The feeling I dread the most is not fear but despair—the dim, oppressive sense that the more things change, the more they stay the same; that each of us with a frozen heart \"like an old-stone savage armed\" will continue to move in darkness, lifting boulders, patrolling the firmaments of divisive anger.",
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"ref": "2013, Alexander Miller, “The Development of Theories of Meaning: From Frege to McDowell and Beyond”, in Michael Beaney, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Development of Analytic Philosophy), page 658:",
"text": "[...] 'The Morning Star' and 'The Evening Star' have the same celestial object as Bedeutung, but present that object in different ways, perhaps in one case as the object that appears in such and such a place in the morning firmament and in the other as the object that appears in such and such a place in the evening firmament.",
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"text": "the international fashion firmament",
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"ref": "1997, Michael Schaller, “Japan: From Enemy to Ally, 1945–50”, in Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7:",
"text": "Europe dominated foreign policy concerns, followed by the Near East and China, where General George C[atlett] Marshall tried, in vain, to mediate a civil war. Japan glowed dimly in the foreign policy firmament.",
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"ref": "1999, Shannon Wiley, “Introduction”, in Seaford, Delaware (Images of America), Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, published 2001, →ISBN, page 8:",
"text": "By this time, Seaford was a town of 2,000 people, and, in the next decade, the poultry industry became a rising star in the firmament of economic growth as new housing and feeding techniques were introduced.",
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"ref": "2008, Adrienne L. McLean, “A Channel for Progress: Theatrical Dance, Popular Culture, and (The) American Ballet”, in Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 40:",
"text": "She [Anna Pavlova] provided articulate, well-thought-out and educational interviews and articles from her first appearances in which she would lay out her life story, the course of her training, the place of ballet in the European and Russian artistic firmaments.",
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"ref": "1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 254:",
"text": "[B]etweene the ſphere of Saturne and the Firmament, there is ſuch an incredible and vaſt ſpace or diſtance (7000000. ſemidiameters of the earth, as Tycho [Brahe] calculates) void of ſtarres: [...]",
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"ref": "1712 July 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “WEDNESDAY, July 2, 1712. Paper X. On the Pleasures of the Imagination.”, in The Spectator, number 420; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 79:",
"text": "But if we yet rise higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each of them attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firmaments and new lights, that are sunk farther in those unfathomable depths of ether, so as not to be seen by the strongest of our telescopes, we are lost in such a labyrinth of suns and worlds, and confounded with the immensity and magnificence of nature.",
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"ref": "1715, H[enry] Curson, “A Cosmographical Introduction to the Geographical Description of the World”, in A New Description of the World. […], 2nd edition, […] Benj[amin] Barker, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The World Cœlestial. Containing 11 Sphæres or Heavens, ſay the Theologians and Aſtronomers. [...] Theſe are called the Primum Mobile, the Chriſtaline Heaven, the Firmament adorned with the Fixed Stars, and the Heavens of the Seven Planets.",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm 150:1, column 1:",
"text": "Praiſe ye the Lord. Praiſe God in his Sanctuarie: Praiſe him in the firmament of his power.",
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"ref": "1690, [Mary Evelyn], “A Voyage to Marryland; or, The Ladies Dressing-room”, in [John Evelyn], editor, Mundus Muliebris: Or, The Ladies Dressing-room Unlock’d, and Her Toilette Spread. […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley […], →OCLC; reprinted Saint Peter Port, Guernsey: The Toucan Press, 1978, →ISBN, page 7:",
"text": "Pins tipt with Diamond Point, and head, / By which the Curls are faſtened, / In radiant Firmament ſet out, / And all over the Hood ſur-tout: [...]",
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"ref": "[1690, [Mary Evelyn], “The Fop-dictionary. […]”, in [John Evelyn], editor, Mundus Muliebris: Or, The Ladies Dressing-room Unlock’d, and Her Toilette Spread. […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley […], →OCLC; reprinted Saint Peter Port, Guernsey: The Toucan Press, 1978, →ISBN, page 18:",
"text": "Firmament. Diamonds, or other precious Stones heading the Pins which they stick into the Tour, and Hair, like Stars.",
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"ref": "2012 January 25, Josh Brown, “Perhaps I’ve Been a Bit too Harsh …”, in Wealth Manager Blog, The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 2013-12-08:",
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"code": "am",
"lang": "Amharic",
"roman": "sämay",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ሰማይ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
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"roman": "raqīʕ",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "رَقِيع"
},
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
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"feminine"
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"word": "سماء"
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{
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "רקיעא"
},
{
"code": "syc",
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"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"Classical-Syriac"
],
"word": "ܪܩܝܥܐ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "čaxarak",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "ճախարակ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "erkinkʻ",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "երկինք"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "erknakamar",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "երկնակամար"
},
{
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "kük kömbəźe",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "күк көмбәҙе"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nebosvod",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "небосвод"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "蒼穹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cāngqióng",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "苍穹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "蒼天"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cāngtiān",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "苍天"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hàotiān",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "昊天"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hàotiān",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"literary"
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"word": "皓天"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "穹蒼"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qióngcāng, qiōngcāng",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "穹苍"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qióngyǔ, qiōngyǔ",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "穹宇"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tiānkōng",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "天空"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "霄漢"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiāohàn",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "nebeská klenba"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "nebeská báň"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "firmament"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "gespan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hemelgespan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hemelgewelf"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"neuter"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "firmaĵo"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "taevalaotus"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "taevavõlv"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"poetic"
],
"word": "ilmankansi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "taivaankansi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmamento"
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{
"code": "gez",
"lang": "Ge'ez",
"roman": "sämay",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "ሰማይ"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ca",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "ცა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Firmament"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Feste"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "steréoma",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"literary",
"neuter"
],
"word": "στερέωμα"
},
{
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "lani"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "raki'a",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "רקיע"
},
{
"code": "hil",
"lang": "Hiligaynon",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "siélo"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "andlangur"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "festing"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "himinhvel"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "himinhvolf"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "himinn"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "cakrawala"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "neamh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmamento"
},
{
"alt": "きゅうそう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyūsō",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "穹蒼"
},
{
"alt": "おおぞら",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ōzora",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "大空"
},
{
"alt": "てんくう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tenkū",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "天空"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "meik",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "មេឃ"
},
{
"alt": "蒼空",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "changgong",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "창공"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"roman": "firmamento",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "פירמאמינטו"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "firmāmentum"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "debesjums"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nébosvod",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не́босвод"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nébesen svod",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не́бесен свод"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "lüft"
},
{
"code": "na",
"lang": "Nauruan",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "se",
"lang": "Northern Sami",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "albmẹassi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hvelving"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "himmelhvelv"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "himmelkvelv"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
"roman": "tvrĭdělĭ",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тврьдѣль"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "lyft"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "staþol"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uprodor"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "falak",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "فلک"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nieboskłon"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nieboskłon"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmamento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "alturas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nebésnyj svod",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "небе́сный свод"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nebosvód",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "небосво́д"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tverdʹ",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"poetic"
],
"word": "твердь"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "aśman",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "अश्मन्"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "iarmailt"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "не̏бо"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ша̑р"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "nȅbo"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "šȃr"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmamento"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "firmament"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fäste"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "himlavalv"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "santinakpan"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "vāṉam",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "வானம்"
},
{
"code": "ti",
"lang": "Tigrinya",
"roman": "sämay",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "ሰማይ"
},
{
"code": "xto",
"lang": "Tocharian A",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "eprer"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "felek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "gökyüzü"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tverdʹ nebesna",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "твердь небесна"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "bầu trời"
},
{
"code": "wym",
"lang": "Vilamovian",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"word": "fjyrmament"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "entrych nef"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "entrych nen"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "vault of the heavens — see also heavens, sky",
"tags": [
"class-3"
],
"word": "uḿkhathí"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "field or sphere of an activity or interest — see also field, sphere",
"word": "ala"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "steréoma",
"sense": "field or sphere of an activity or interest — see also field, sphere",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "στερέωμα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "field or sphere of an activity or interest — see also field, sphere",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "firmamento"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Septuagint",
"Vulgate"
],
"word": "firmament"
}
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