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Empyreal

Definitions: Empyreal

Empyreal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the sky or heavens; "the empyrean sphere".

2. Inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity"- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "empyreal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Empyreal

Synonyms: empyrean (adj), sublime (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Empyreal

English words defined with "empyreal": Empyreal air, empyreansublime. (references)
Etymologies containing "empyreal": Empyreuma, Empyrical. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Empyreal

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Empyreal

Expression using "empyreal": Empyreal air. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Empyreal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

empyreal

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Empyreal

Language Translations for "empyreal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qiellor (celestial, divine, empyrean, heavenly, supernal), hyjnor (celestial, divine, godlike, heavenly, supernal). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سماوي (angelic, celestial, divine, heavenly, unearthly). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

висш (crowning, high, imperial, paramount, sovereign), небесен (celestial, empyrean, ethereal, heavenly, skyey, spheric, sphery, superlunary, supernal). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nebeský (celestial, heavenly, superlunary). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

علوی (Astral, Celestial, Ethereal), عرشی (Sublime), اتشین (Hot, Igneous), اسمانی (Celestial, Ethereal, Heavenly, Olympiad, Skiey). (various references)

   

French

  

empyrée. (various references)

   

German

  

himmlisch (adorable, angelic, celestial, celestially, divine, elysian, heavenliness, heavenly, infinite, sublime). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ουράνιοσ αιθέριοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mennyei (celestial, divvy, heavenly, out of this world, paradisiac, supernal, unearthly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

empireo (empyrean). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

empyrealay

   

Russian 

  

небесный (celestial, empyrean, heavenly, skyey, supernal). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nebeski (celestial, empyrean, heavenly, skyey, supernal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

empíreo. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

небесний (celestial, empyrean, heavenly, spheric, spherical), полум'яний (igneous, red-hot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Empyreal

Misspellings

"Empyreal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empirial, empyrea. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Empyreal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p-r-y"

-1 letter: empaler, lamprey, premeal.

-2 letters: ampere, ampler, empale, empery, leaper, merely, palmer, parley, pearly, player, repeal, replay, yelper.

-3 letters: ameer, ample, amply, apery, early, emery, lamer, laree, layer, leary, leery, leper, maple, marly, mealy, merle, paler, palmy, parle, payee, payer, pearl, peery, perea, plyer, ramee, realm, relay, remap, repay, repel, reply.

-4 letters: aery, alee, alme, amyl, aper, army, aryl, earl, eely, eery, elmy, eyer, eyra, eyre, lame, lamp, leap, lear, leer, lyre, male, mare, marl, meal, mere, merl, pale, palm, paly, pare, peal, pear, peel, peer, pele, perm, play, plea, pram, pray, pree, prey, pyre, rale, ramp, rape, real, ream, reap, reel, rely, yare, year, yelp, ylem.

-5 letters: ale, alp, amp, ape, are, arm, aye, ear, eel, elm, eme, era, ere, eye, lam, lap, lar, lay, lea, lee, ley, lye, mae, map, mar, may, mel, pal, pam, par, pay, pea, pee, per, ply, pry, pya, pye, ram, rap, ray, ree, rem, rep, rya, rye, yam, yap, yar, yea, yep.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p-r-y"
 

+1 letter: exemplary.

 

+2 letters: polymerase.

 

+3 letters: ephemerally, exemplarily, exemplarity, permanently, polymerases, prematurely, temperately.

 

+4 letters: cephalometry, ephemerality, extemporally, hyperlipemia, hypermutable, hyperrealism, impenetrably, imperatively, permeability.

 

+5 letters: complementary, extemporarily, hypercalcemia, hypercalcemic, hyperglycemia, hyperlipemias, hypermetrical, hyperrealisms, impermanently, intemperately, predominately, sempiternally, supplementary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Empyreal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6D 70 79 72 65 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    --    .--.    -.--.    .-.    .    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101101 01110000 01111001 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#109 &#112 &#121 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006D 0070 0079 0072 0065 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3979829184716778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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