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realm
English
Etymology
From Middle English rewme, realme, reaume, from Old French reaume, realme (“kingdom”), of unclear origins. A postulated *r?g?limen (“domain, kingdom”), Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cross of r?gimen with r?g?lis is usually cited.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: r?lm, IPA(key): /??lm/
- Rhymes: -?lm
Noun
realm (plural realms)
- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
- 1907, Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons, "The World and How to Pass Through It"
- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
- 2006, Christian Neef, "Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine, November 22,
- At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm […]
- 1907, Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons, "The World and How to Pass Through It"
- The domain of a certain abstraction.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution, "Truth Must be Classified Scientifically",
- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution, "Truth Must be Classified Scientifically",
- (computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.
- (formal or law) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, Chapter XXXI,
- And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan",
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, Chapter XXXI,
- (fantasy, role-playing games) An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.
- (virology, taxonomy) A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
Synonyms
- (a territory or state): country, land, kingdom
- (a sphere of activity or influence): field, province
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Almer, Lamer, Lemar, Lerma, Maler, lamer, maerl, maler, marle, meral
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orb
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /o?b/
- (UK) IPA(key): /??(?)b/
- Rhymes: -??(r)b
Etymology 1
From Middle English orbe, from Old French orbe, from Latin orbis (“circle, orb”). Compare orbit.
Noun
orb (plural orbs)
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
- In the small orb of one particular tear.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
- One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- An orbit of an heavenly body
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, "Of Superstition"
- The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, "Of Superstition"
- (rare) The time period of an orbit
- (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- (rare) A sphere of action.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface"
- By what fatality the orb of my genius […] acts upon these men like the moon upon a certain description of patients, it would be irksome to inquire
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre Act 1 Scene 2
- But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface"
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
Synonyms
- (spherical body): ball, globe, sphere
- (circle): circle, orbit
- (a period of time): See Thesaurus:year
- (an eye): See Thesaurus:eye
- (revolving circular body): roller, wheel
- (sphere of action): area, domain, field, province
- (monarch's ceremonial sphere): globe, globus cruciger, mound, orb
- (military formation): globe
Translations
Verb
orb (third-person singular simple present orbs, present participle orbing, simple past and past participle orbed)
- (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
- 1842, James Russell Lowell, sonnet
- a full-orbed sun
- 1842, James Russell Lowell, sonnet
- (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
- (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- The wheels were orbed with gold.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
Etymology 2
From Old French orb (“blind”), from Latin orbus (“destitute”).
Noun
orb (plural orbs)
- (architecture) A blank window or panel.
- 1845, Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral
- small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows
- 1845, Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral
References
- orb in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- BOR, Bor, Bor., ROB, Rob, bor, bro, bro., rob
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- orbu
Etymology
From Latin orbus. Compare Romanian orb.
Adjective
orb m (feminine singular orbe, masculine plural orghi, feminine plural orbi)
- blind
- (figuratively) ignorant
- (figuratively) uncultivated, unrefined, uncivilized
Related terms
- urbari
- urbiatse
See also
- chior
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan (compare Occitan òrb), from Latin orbus (ab ocul?s) (literally “deprived of eyes”) (compare Italian orbo, Romanian orb, French aveugle from the other half of the idiom), from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /???p/
- (Central) IPA(key): /??rp/
Adjective
orb (feminine orba, masculine plural orbs, feminine plural orbes)
- blind
Synonyms
- cec
Noun
orb m (uncountable)
- a fungal disease of wheat and other cereals
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish orpo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *orpa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *arbha-s. Cognate with Hungarian árva.
Noun
orb (genitive orvu, partitive orbu)
- orphan
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin orbus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os (“orphan”). Compare Italian orbo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /orb/
Adjective
orb m or n (feminine singular oarb?, masculine plural orbi, feminine and neuter plural oarbe)
- blind
Declension
Noun
orb m (plural orbi, feminine equivalent oarb?)
- blind man
Declension
Derived terms
- orbe?
- orbi
Related terms
- orbec?i
See also
- chior
- mut
- surd
- vedea
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