Definition of Nadir

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Definition of Nadir

Nadir

That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

The lowest point; the time of greatest depression.

Related Definitions:

Celestial, Depression, Directly, Hemisphere, Horizon, Inferior, Lower, Zenith, Of, Opposite, Or, Place, Point, Pole, Sphere, Stand, That, The, Time, Under, We, Where

Nadir Quotations

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
David McCullough

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
Len G. Murray

Nadir Translations

nadir in Dutch is voetpunt, nadir
nadir in German is Fusspunkt
nadir in Spanish is nadir

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