Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or abounding with stars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having, or abounding with, stars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Filled with
stars ;starry .
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Examples
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In the blue and stelliferous light he could not bide, but the innocent soul of the boy thrilled to Her presence.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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The gates crashed against him closed and he was floating, floating in the light, in the blue and stelliferous bright.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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In the blue and stelliferous light he could not bide, but the innocent soul of the boy thrilled to Her presence.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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The gates crashed against him closed and he was floating, floating in the light, in the blue and stelliferous bright.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Photography reveals in a remarkable manner the amazing richness of this stelliferous zone; the impress of the stars on the sensitive plate of the camera, in some instances, resembles a shower of descending snowflakes.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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This stelliferous zone almost completely encircles the sphere, which it divides into two nearly equal parts, and is inclined at an angle of 63° to the celestial equator.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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The stars that sprent the firmament when overly stelliferous --
reesetee commented on the word stelliferous
Abounding with stars.
November 20, 2007
qms commented on the word stelliferous
The owl and the robin do differ thus:
The chirper finds darkness somniferous,
The nocturnal owl
Is out on the prowl,
Aloft when the sky is stelliferous.
August 16, 2018
Gammerstang commented on the word stelliferous
Reminds me of a famous line from the book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
August 16, 2018