Definition of sphere

"sphere" in the noun sense

1. sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena

a particular environment or walk of life

"his social sphere is limited"

"it was a closed area of employment"

"he's out of my orbit"

2. sphere

any spherically shaped artifact

3. sphere, sphere of influence

the geographical area in which one nation is very influential

4. sector, sphere

a particular aspect of life or activity

"he was helpless in an important sector of his life"

5. sphere

a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)

6. sphere

a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center

7. celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin

the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

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Quotations for sphere

O music, sphere descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid. [ Collins ]

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. [ John Dwight ]

A globe of dew
Filling, in the morning new.
Some eyed flower, whose young leaves waken
On an unimagined world;
Constellated suns unshaken,
Orbits measureless are furled
In that frail and fading sphere.
With ten millions gathered there
To tremble, gleam and disappear. [ Shelley ]

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. [ Hen. IV ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere,
A boon, an offering heaven holds dear,
'Tis the last libation Liberty draws
From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. [ Moore ]

Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands.
And, with his compass, measures seas and lands. [ Dryden ]

Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there
Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. [ George Herbert ]

Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]

He is wide of the mark; has gone quite out of his sphere.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman. [ Elizabeth Oakes Smith ]

That friendship, which is exerted in too wide a sphere, becomes totally useless. [ Goldsmith ]

Where musing Solitude might love to lift her soul above this sphere of earthliness. [ Shelley ]

The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. [ Ward Beecher ]

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! [ Hawthorne ]

The sphere-harmony of a Shakespeare, of a Goethe, the cathedral music of a Milton, the humble, genuine lark-notes of a Burns. [ Carlyle ]

The truly great are to be found everywhere; nor is it easy to say in what condition they spring up most plentifully. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Samuel Gardner was blind in one eye and in a moment of confusion he stepped out of a receiving and discharging door in one of the warehouses into the ineffable glories of the celestial sphere. [ Epitaph ]

It is difficult for the mind to span the career of nobody; the sphere of action opened to this wonderful person so enlarges every day that the limited faculties of anybody are too weak to compass it. [ Dickens ]

All life is surrounded by a great circumference of death; but to the believer in Jesus, beyond this surrounding death is a boundless sphere of life. He has only to die once to be done with death forever. [ James Hamilton ]

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. [ Jean Paul ]

Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]

sphere in Scrabble®

The word sphere is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sphere:

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sphere in Words With Friends™

The word sphere is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters sphere:

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Words within the letters of sphere

2 letter words in sphere (4 words)

3 letter words in sphere (5 words)

4 letter words in sphere (7 words)

5 letter words in sphere (5 words)

6 letter words in sphere (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence sphere

Words that start with sphere (6 words)

Word Growth involving sphere

Shorter words in sphere

he her here

re here

Longer words containing sphere

aerosphere aerospheres

archesphere archespheres

asthenosphere asthenospheres

astrosphere astrospheres

atmosphere atmosphereless

atmosphere atmospheres subatmospheres

atmosphere nonatmosphere

atmosphere subatmosphere subatmospheres

barysphere

bathysphere bathyspheres

biosphere biospheres

blastosphere blastospheres

cardiosphere cardiospheres

centrosphere centrospheres

chemosphere chemospheres

chromatosphere chromatospheres

chromosphere chromospheres

circumsphere circumspheres

coccosphere coccospheres

cosmosphere cosmospheres

cryosphere cryospheres

ecosphere ecospheres

exosphere exospheres

geosphere geospheres

gravisphere gravispheres

halfsphere

heliosphere heliospheres

hemisphere hemispherectomies

hemisphere hemispherectomy

hemisphere hemispheres subhemispheres

hemisphere subhemisphere subhemispheres

horosphere horospheres

hydrosphere hydrospheres

hypersphere hyperspheres

insphere insphered

insphere inspheres

intersphere interspheres

ionosphere ionospheres

leucosphere

lithosphere lithospheres

magnetosphere magnetospheres

magnetosphere submagnetosphere

mesosphere

metamorphosphere metamorphospheres

microsphere microspheres

monosphere monospheres

nanosphere nanospheres

neutrosphere neutrospheres

oosphere oospheres zoospheres

oosphere zoosphere zoospheres

ozonosphere ozonospheres

parasphere paraspheres

pedosphere pedospheres

petrosphere petrospheres

photosphere photospheres

phyllosphere phyllospheres

planisphere planispheres

plasmasphere

pseudosphere pseudospheres

pyrosphere pyrospheres

quasisphere quasispheres

rhabdosphere rhabdospheres

rhizosphere mycorrhizosphere

rhizosphere rhizospheres

semisphere semispheres

sorosphere sorospheres

spermosphere spermospheres

sphered insphered

sphered unsphered

sphereless atmosphereless

spherelike

sphereness

spheres aerospheres

spheres archespheres

spheres asthenospheres

spheres astrospheres

spheres atmospheres subatmospheres

spheres bathyspheres

spheres biospheres

spheres blastospheres

spheres cardiospheres

spheres centrospheres

spheres chemospheres

spheres chromatospheres

spheres chromospheres

spheres circumspheres

spheres coccospheres

spheres cosmospheres

spheres cryospheres

spheres ecospheres

spheres exospheres

spheres geospheres

spheres gravispheres

spheres heliospheres

spheres hemispheres subhemispheres

spheres horospheres

spheres hydrospheres

spheres hyperspheres

spheres inspheres

spheres interspheres

spheres ionospheres

spheres lithospheres

spheres magnetospheres

spheres metamorphospheres

spheres microkinetospheres

spheres microspheres

spheres monospheres

spheres nanospheres

spheres neutrospheres

spheres oospheres zoospheres

spheres ozonospheres

spheres paraspheres

spheres pedospheres

spheres petrospheres

spheres photospheres

spheres phyllospheres

spheres planispheres

spheres pseudospheres

spheres pyrospheres

spheres quasispheres

spheres rhabdospheres

spheres rhizospheres

spheres semispheres

spheres sorospheres

spheres spermospheres

spheres stratospheres substratospheres

spheres subspheres

spheres tectospheres

spheres tetraspheres

spheres thermospheres

spheres trochospheres

spheres tropospheres

spheres unspheres

spheres zygospheres

stratosphere stratospheres substratospheres

stratosphere substratosphere substratospheres

subsphere subspheres

tectosphere tectospheres

tetrasphere tetraspheres

thermosphere thermospheres

trochosphere trochospheres

troposphere tropospheres

unsphere unsphered

unsphere unspheres

zygosphere zygospheres