orb
orb Lexical Profile
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• noun
A spherical object or globe; in poetic or literary contexts, a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
"The full moon rose above the horizon as a glowing golden orb."
A golden sphere surmounted by a cross, carried by a monarch as a ceremonial emblem of royal sovereignty and power.
"During the coronation ceremony, the monarch held the royal scepter in one hand and the jeweled orb in the other."
An eyeball or eye (used chiefly in poetic or literary contexts).
"In the nineteenth-century poem, the heroine turns her tearful orbs toward the heavens."
• verb
To form into a sphere or circle, or to encircle and enclose (used chiefly in literary contexts).
"The morning mist slowly orbed the distant mountain peak in a pale halo."
• Rhymes for orb
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 15th century from Latin 'orbis', meaning 'circle, ring, disk, or sphere', which is also the root of the word 'orbit'.