(But do yourself a favor and don’t refer to your eyes as orbs.) Most commonly, it’s used in place of ball or sphere to be poetic or convey a mysterious or mystical aura, as in She saw a glowing orb rise from the field and knew it was a friendly spirit. It can also refer specifically to Earth, and was formerly used to mean “orbit.” More strangely, orb is used as a fanciful word for the eyeball. The word is sometimes used as a more poetic way to refer to what we usually call celestial bodies or heavenly bodies-planets, moons, and stars (since they are all spheres). It comes from the Latin word orbis, meaning “circle” or “disk.” This word is also the basis of the word orbit-though technically the orbits of most planets are elliptical (oval-shaped).Īn orb is any three-dimensional spherical figure (though less commonly it can refer to a plain two-dimensional circle). ![]() The first records of the word orb in English come from the early 1500s.
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