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Definitions: Empyrean |
EmpyreanAdjective1. 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". Noun1. The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "empyrean" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EmpyreanSynonyms: empyreal (adj), sublime (adj), celestial sphere (n), firmament (n), heavens (n), sphere (n), vault of heaven (n), welkin (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely; (beautiful); ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian; (heavenly). |
World | Heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Empyrean |
| English words defined with "empyrean": empyreal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "empyrean": U'niverse. (references) |
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| "Empyrean" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Empyrean" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
empyrean | 13 |
empyrean bioscience | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "empyrean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qiellor (celestial, divine, empyreal, heavenly, supernal), qiell (blue, firmament, heaven, sky, welkin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سام (baneful, pestilent, poisonous, sublime, toxic, venomous, virulent), السماء (blue, canopy, firmament, sky, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | седмо небе, висини, небесната твърд (firmament), небесен (celestial, empyreal, ethereal, heavenly, skyey, spheric, sphery, superlunary, supernal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | émpyrée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lichthimmel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύψιστοσ ουρανόσ, ουράνιοσ (celestial, heavenly, supernal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hetedik mennyország, földöntúli (ethereal, extramundane, superlunary, supermundane, unearthly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | empireo (empyreal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ard-flaunys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | empyreanay céu (above, air, azure, blue, firmless, heaven, paradise, roof, sky, sphere, welkin), borras (bottoms, leavings, lees, sediment). (various references) небесный (celestial, empyreal, heavenly, skyey, supernal), небесная твердь. (various references) raj (eden, elysium, heaven, paradise), nebeski (celestial, empyreal, heavenly, skyey, supernal). (various references) el empíreo, del empíreo. (various references) імпірей, райський (paradisaic, paradisaical, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisiacal), небесний (celestial, empyreal, heavenly, spheric, spherical), небеса (heaven). (various references) thiên cung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | empyros. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "empyrean": empyreans. (additional references) | |
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"Empyrean" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emphyrean, empryean, empyrea, emryrean, ephyrean, experean. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-n-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: prename. | |
-2 letters: ampere, empery, meaner, napery, preman, premen, pyrene, rename. | |
-3 letters: ameer, apery, arpen, emery, enema, enemy, meany, namer, payee, payer, peery, perea, preen, pyran, ramee, ramen, ranee, reman, remap, repay, yamen, yearn. | |
-4 letters: aery, amen, aper, army, earn, eery, erne, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyra, eyre, mane, many, mare, mean, mere, myna, name, nape, nary, neap, near, neem, neep, nema, pane, pare, pean, pear, peen, peer, perm, pram, pray, pree, prey, pyre, ramp, rape, ream, reap, yare, yarn, yean, year. | |
-5 letters: amp, ane, any, ape, are, arm, aye, ear, eme, era, ere, ern, eye, mae, man, map, mar, may, men, nae, nam, nap, nay, nee, pam, pan, par, pay, pea, pee, pen, per, pry, pya, pye, ram, ran, rap, ray, ree, rem, rep, rya, rye, yam, yap, yar, yea, yen, yep. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-n-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: empyreans, repayment. | |
+2 letters: permanency, prepayment, repayments. | |
+3 letters: hymenoptera, hypermnesia, overpayment, permanently, prepayments. | |
+4 letters: hymenopteran, hypermnesias, impenetrably, impermanency, overpayments, underpayment. | |
+5 letters: complementary, hymenopterans, impermanently, intemperately, predominately, pyrimethamine, sempiternally, supernumerary, supplementary, underpayments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 70 79 72 65 61 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01110000 01111001 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m p y r e a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0070 0079 0072 0065 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979829184716780 |
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