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"text": "I knowe more then Apollo, / For oft when hee ly’s sleeping / I see yͤ starrs att bloudie warres / In yͤ wounded welkin weeping, […]",
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"ref": "1951 May 11, Bosley Crowther, “The Screen: ‘Great Caruso’ makes its debut; Mario Lanza plays the famous tenor in Metro movie at Radio City Music Hall”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-27, page 40, column 2",
"text": "Mr. [Mario] Lanza has an excellent young tenor voice and he uses it in his many numbers with impressive dramatic power. Likewise, Miss [Dorothy] Kirsten and Miss [Blanche] Thebom are ladies who can rock the welkin, too, and their contributions to the concert maintain it at a musical high.",
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"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
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"text": "Rhotus was going on when day appear'd, / And with its light the cloudy welkin clear'd.",
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"ref": "c. 1620, [anonymous], “Poems from Songbooks and Miscellanies before 1660 [Tom o’ Bedlam]”, in R[obert] C[ecil] Bald, editor, Seventeenth-century English Poetry (The Harper English Literature Series; from Giles Earle His Booke, British Museum, Additional MSS. 24,665), New York, N.Y., Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, published 1959, →OCLC, page 414",
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"ref": "1951 May 11, Bosley Crowther, “The Screen: ‘Great Caruso’ makes its debut; Mario Lanza plays the famous tenor in Metro movie at Radio City Music Hall”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-27, page 40, column 2",
"text": "Mr. [Mario] Lanza has an excellent young tenor voice and he uses it in his many numbers with impressive dramatic power. Likewise, Miss [Dorothy] Kirsten and Miss [Blanche] Thebom are ladies who can rock the welkin, too, and their contributions to the concert maintain it at a musical high.",
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"ref": "1683, John Chalkhill, “Part I”, in [Izaak Walton], editor, Thealma and Clearchus. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, page 48",
"text": "Rhotus was going on when day appear'd, / And with its light the cloudy welkin clear'd.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1784, Joseph Budworth, chapter XL, in A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakes in Westmoreland, Lancashire, and Cumberland, 3rd edition, London: […] John Nichols and Son, […]; [a]nd sold by T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […]; and John Upham, […], published 1810, →OCLC, page 354",
"text": "For trifles only suit an idle hour, / When school is emptied or the welkins pour.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"upper",
"upper#Adjective"
],
[
"atmosphere",
"atmosphere"
],
[
"occupied",
"occupy"
],
[
"clouds",
"cloud#Noun"
],
[
"flying",
"flying#Adjective"
],
[
"birds",
"bird#Noun"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Religion"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1868 March, Max Müller, “Art. VIII.—The Sixth Hymn of the First Book of the Rig Veda.”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, volume III (New Series), London: Trübner and Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 239",
"text": "Here we have the sky thrice, three welkins, three lights, three heavens, three earths.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven."
],
"links": [
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"place",
"place#Noun"
],
[
"God",
"God"
],
[
"deities",
"deity"
],
[
"live",
"live#Verb"
],
[
"heaven",
"heaven#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(religion) The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven."
],
"topics": [
"lifestyle",
"religion"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛlkɪn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɛlkən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(General American) -ɛlkən"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-welkin.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-welkin.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "samāʔ",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "سَمَاء"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "aśman",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "আশমান"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nebosvod",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "небосвод"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "蒼穹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cāngqióng",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "苍穹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tiānqióng",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "天穹"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hemelgewelf"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "uitspansel"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"masculine",
"poetic"
],
"word": "ouelquin"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"poetic"
],
"word": "voûte céleste"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "mildly higher register or poetic",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Firmament"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Himmel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"poetic"
],
"word": "Himmelszelt"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "steréoma",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "στερέωμα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "mennybolt"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nebesá",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"plural-only",
"poetic"
],
"word": "небеса́"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "ambara",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "अम्बर"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ша̑р"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "šȃr"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "arş"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "asuman"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "felek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "feza"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "sema"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "the sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible — see also firmament, sky",
"word": "uçmağ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nebe",
"sense": "the upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "небе"
}
],
"word": "welkin"
}
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