n.
- a round solid figure, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.
- each of a series of revolving concentrically arranged spherical shells in which celestial bodies were formerly thought to be set in a fixed relationship.
▸chiefly literary a celestial body.
▸literary the sky perceived as a vault upon or in which celestial bodies are represented as lying.
▸a globe representing the earth.
- an area of activity, interest, or expertise.
v.
archaic enclose in or form into a sphere.
Phrase
- music
(or harmony)
of the spheres
the natural harmonic tones supposedly produced by the movement of the celestial spheres or the bodies fixed in them.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. espere, from late L. sphera, from Gk sphaira ‘ball’.
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