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Sphere

noun

A particular environment or walk of life. Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, orbit. "It was a closed area of employment" , "He's out of my orbit"

Any spherically shaped artifact.

The geographical area in which one nation is very influential. Synonym: sphere of influence.

A particular aspect of life or activity. Synonym: sector.

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

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

The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected. Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin.

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... possession it was found that she was the owner of nearly four thousand acres, of which only a deed in her own hand-writing could deprive her. But though she was rich she toiled not the less dilligently and forsook not the sphere of woman in attending to the ways of her household, and also, true to her Indian education, she planted and hoed and harvested, retaining her Indian dress and habits till the day of her death. During the revolutionary war her house was made the rendevous and ...

— Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians • Elias Johnson

... the post and found Little deep in a stock-taking revel, as enthusiastic as a boy in his new sphere. The typewriter-sailor was more at home here than on board the ship, in utter contrast to Rolfe; and Barry grinned perforce at the formidable armament he had strapped about his body. He looked the part of a fiction ...

— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... Christ's foreshadowing in Juda's haze Was of his grief, 'tis of His triumph, here, For, is not His celestrial glory clear In Freedom for all men? First, gaseous rays In Maryland, then rounded firm full blaze In the Republic, it draws every sphere Of Human welfare, whether far or near, From depths occult to nights with dawns ...

— Freedom, Truth and Beauty • Edward Doyle

... to be the eye, Maxwell. You're going to stay right where you are until you pass off this sphere. Remembering what you once were, your pastimes and love of luxury, this seems as hellish a place and existence as even you deserve. When I saw you last night"—and here Ledyard laughed—"it was all I could do to control myself. You play your part ...

— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock

... community to keep themselves closely informed on all national affairs; and in every highly-civilised state the ordinary male has been almost compelled to take his share, however small, in the duties and labours of legislation and government. Thus there has opened before the mass of men a vast new sphere of labour undreamed of by their ancestors. In every direction the change which material civilisation has wrought, while it has militated against that comparatively small section of males who have nothing to offer society but the expenditure of their untrained muscular energy ...

— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner

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