Crossword-Solution: FIRMAMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Firmament | v. & a. | Fixed foundation; established basis. |
| Firmament | v. & a. | The region of the air; the sky or heavens. |
| Firmament | v. & a. | The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “FIRMAMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| night sky | 3 answers |
| ATMOSPHERIC region in which clouds float, winds blow, and birds fly | 3 answers |
| REGION of atmosphere in which clouds float, winds blow, and birds fly | 3 answers |
| Welkin | 8 answers |
| empyrean | 12 answers |
| Sky | 13 answers |
| Vault | 33 answers |
| "Heavens __!" | 56 answers |
| Heaven | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
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greedy person
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Sentences with FIRMAMENT (5)
Darling there was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out: “Now, Peter!” Chapter III.
And God made two great Lights, great for thir use To Man, the greater to have rule by Day, The less by Night alterne: and made the Starrs, And set them in the Firmament of Heav’n To illuminate the Earth, and rule the Day In thir vicissitude, and rule the Night, And Light from Darkness to divide.
This climax of the series had been reached to-night on Melchester Moor, and for the first time in the season its irregularities were forms without features; suggestive of anything, proclaiming nothing, and without more character than that of being the limit of something else—the lowest layer of a firmament of snow.
Ful many a wonder doth this vice, He can make of a wisman nyce, And of a fool, that him schal seme That he can al the lawe deme, 20 And yiven every juggement Which longeth to the firmament Bothe of the sterre and of the mone; And thus he makth a gret clerk sone Of him that is a lewed man.
John Welsh on the Craigdowhill, and ‘took the heavens, earth, and sun in the firmament that was shining on us, as also the ambassador who made the offer, and _the clerk who raised the psalms_, to witness that I did give myself away to the Lord in a personal and perpetual covenant never to be forgotten’; and already, in 1675, the birth of my direct ascendant was registered in Glasgow.
Quotes with FIRMAMENT (3)
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the col…
If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings of paradise: Peradventure thou would say unto me, ‘I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2013).