Crossword-Solution: ORB 3 letters, 532 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Orb	n.	A blank window or panel.
Orb	n.	A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
Orb	n.	One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
Orb	n.	A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
Orb	n.	A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
Orb	n.	The eye, as luminous and spherical.
Orb	n.	A revolving circular body; a wheel.
Orb	n.	A sphere of action.
Orb	n.	Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
Orb	n.	A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Orb	v. t.	To form into an orb or circle.
Orb	v. t.	To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
Orb	v. i.	To become round like an orb.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ORB	anagram	BOR, BRO, OBR, ROB

We have 532 clues for the answer “ORB”

Clue	Answers
Sphere wielded by a monarch during a coronation	1 answer
"... and the __ below / As hush as death": "Hamlet"	1 answer
"... the __ below / As hush as death ... ": "Hamlet"	1 answer
"... the inconstant moon ... that monthly changes in her circled __": Juliet	1 answer
"Ball" hidden in this puzzle's longest answers	1 answer
"Foolery ... does walk about the __ like the sun": Shakespeare	1 answer
"Foolery, sir, does walk about the ___ like the sun, it shines every where": Shak.	1 answer
"Little Fluffy Clouds" band, with "the"	1 answer
"O thou pale ___ that silent shines": Burns	1 answer
"Pondering My ___" (meme showing a wizard staring into a crystal ball)	1 answer
"That mighty ___ of song": Wordsworth	1 answer
"The Moon, how definite its __!": Coleridge	1 answer
"The ___ of the day," the sun.	1 answer
"Thou ___ aloft full-dazzling!": Whitman	1 answer
Royal sceptre topper	1 answer
2013 Derby winner	1 answer
A basketball, but not a football	1 answer
A circular body.	1 answer
A globe, for one	1 answer
A marble, for one	1 answer
A telescope may be trained on one	1 answer
Alex Paterson & Thomas Fehlmann ambient house band	1 answer
Ambient electronic duo, with "the"	1 answer
Ambient group who wrote "Little Fluffy Clouds," with "the"	1 answer
Ambient house band	1 answer
An eye for poetry?	1 answer
An eye for the poetic?	1 answer
Any ball-shaped object	1 answer
Any planet, to a bard	1 answer
Any star	1 answer
Anything round.	1 answer
Archaic sun or moon descriptor	1 answer
Ball borne by the nine longest Across answers	1 answer
Ball in space	1 answer
Ball in the sky	1 answer
Ball or sphere	1 answer
Glowing celestial body	1 answer
Ball, more pretentiously	1 answer
Ball, poetically	1 answer
Ballish sphere	1 answer
Bard's eye	1 answer
Baseball or basketball, but not football	1 answer
Basketball but not a football	1 answer
Bath bomb shape	1 answer
Bauble shaped like the moon	1 answer
Bay in May 2013 headlines	1 answer
Big ball in space	1 answer
Bit of royal regalia	1 answer
Blake's eye	1 answer
Bubble or billiard ball	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

ECRAON

Hint 3 another clue

COVER THE EYES

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Unscramble ORB 3-letter words that start with O 3-letter words that end in B 3-letter words containing RB 3-letter words containing BR 3-letter words with O and R

Sentences with ORB (5)

Moon, that now meetst the orient Sun, now fli’st With the fixt Starrs, fixt in thir Orb that flies, And yee five other wandring Fires that move In mystic Dance not without Song, resound His praise, who out of Darkness call’d up Light.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

There was a sense within her—too ill-defined to be made a thought, but weighing heavily on her mind—that her whole orb of life, both before and after, was connected with this spot, as with the one point that gave it unity.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

When the great orb of day disappears beneath the horizon the effect is precisely as that of the extinguishing of a single lamp within a chamber.

The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

The solar rays pierced the curtain of clouds, piled up on the eastern horizon, and the radiant orb rose rapidly.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Her small face, usually so darkly pale, glowed like a rose in the faint orb of light, and under her rumpled hair her eyes seemed deeper and larger than by day.

Summer Edith Wharton 2006

Quotes with ORB (3)

Which do you think is more valuable to humanity? a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism? orb. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and beh…

Jerry A. Coyne

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture

Karen Blixen

Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today?

Andrea Kayne Kaufman Oxford Messed Up

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,163 times in crossword archives (1917–2025).