Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

world; cosmos; kosmos†; terraqueous globe†, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm†; music of the spheres. heavens, sky, welkin†, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions†; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces. heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea [Lat.], ame no kawa [Jap.]. sun, orb of day, Apollo†, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite†, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite†. constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades. colures†, equator, ecliptic, orbit. [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology†; cosmology, cosmography†, cosmogony; eidouranion†, orrery; geodesy &c (measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer†; astronomer; observatory; planetarium. Adj. cosmic, cosmical†; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious†, terraqueous†, terrene, terreous†, telluric, earthly, geotic†, under the sun; sublunary†, subastral†. solar, heliacal†; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery†; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral†; astral; nebular; uranic. Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun. Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht [G.]; earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God [Hageman]; green calm below, blue quietness above [Whittier]; hanging in a golden chain this pendant World [Paradise Lost]; nothing in nature is unbeautiful [Tennyson]; silently as a dream the fabric rose [Cowper]; some touch of nature's genial glow [Scott]; this majestical roof fretted with golden fire [Hamlet]; through knowledge we behold the World's creation [Spenser].