Noun
Fixed foundation; established basis.
The region of the air; the sky or heavens.
The orb of the fixed stars; the most rmote of the celestial spheres.
Source: Webster's dictionaryChina has entered a “third era” with President Xi Jinping placing himself in the same firmament as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Source: Internet
Contemporary Biblical cosmology reflects the same view of a flat, circular Earth swimming on water and overarched by the solid vault of the firmament to which are fastened the stars. Source: Internet
It appears again in Daniel Chapter 12 Verse 3, "The wise ones will shine like the radiance of the firmament". Source: Internet
For the face of the creature was now the face of the firmament, and its mane encircled all. Source: Internet
In the passage of time, the promiscuous appropriation of his creations and now Lovecraft’s canonization into the American literary firmament, some of the weirdness and danger is culturally softened. Source: Internet
The post-World War II scions of several of these families went to study law abroad, and they are prominent, not to mention wealthy, in Belize’s legal firmament – Courtenays, Barrows, Youngs, Elringtons, and so on and so forth. Source: Internet