Synonyms for orb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Military formation — A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
2. Orbit — A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry
4. Mound — A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
Definitions
- n. 1
A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- n. 2
Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- n. 3
A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
- n. 4
A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
Related words
- Word family
- orbical
- Phrases
- orb spider
Forms
- Plural
- orbs → balls, globes, spheres, orbits…
Example sentences
- ball I shall try to take the ball without him noticing.
- sphere From the sphere emanated some kind of strange glow.
- circle Layla had a large circle of friends but was naive.
- orbit The moon's orbit is always concave toward the sun.
- roller The only one who didn't go roller skating was Tom.
- mound Five pitchers are to take the mound in rotation.
By length
- 3 letters
- eye1
- 4 letters
- year1, area3, ball1
- 5 letters
- field1, wheel1, globe1, orbit2, mound1
- 6 letters
- circle2, domain2, roller2, sphere1
- 7 letters
- circuit2, eyeball2
- 8 letters
- province2
- 11 letters
- agglomerate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (area3 = 3 syllables).