firmament

Other forms of firmament

plural

firmaments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about firmament

What does firmament mean?

firmament means "the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected".

How many syllables are in firmament?

firmament has 3 syllables and divides as fir-ma-ment under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for firmament?

Close synonyms include celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, heavens, vault of heaven. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is firmament a common word?

firmament is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.