Skyling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A being from the sky or heavens.

    "Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings."

Example

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"Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings."

Etymology

From sky + -ling.

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