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stratosphere

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstɹætəsfɪə/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈstɹætəsfɪɚ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: S T R AE1 T AH0 S F IH2 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: layer

History

Etymology

From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سْتْرَاتُوسْفِير (strātūsfīr) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Belarusian: стратасфе́ра (stratasfjéra) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Catalan: estratosfera — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Chinese Mandarin: 平流層 /平流层 (píngliúcéng) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Czech: stratosféra — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Danish: stratosfære — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Dutch: stratosfeer — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Estonian: stratosfäär — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Finnish: stratosfääri — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • French: stratosphère — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Galician: estratosfera — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Georgian: სტრატოსფერო (sṭraṭospero) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • German: Stratosphäre — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Greek: στρατόσφαιρα (stratósfaira) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Icelandic: heiðhvolf — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Italian: stratosfera — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Japanese: 成層圏 (seisōken) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Korean: 성층권 (seongcheunggwon) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Māori: kōhaupapa — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stratosfære — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: stratosfære — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Polish: stratosfera — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Portuguese: estratosfera — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Russian: стратосфе́ра (stratosféra) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Spanish: estratosfera — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Swedish: stratosfär — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Tagalog: himpapayaw — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Turkish: stratosfer — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Ukrainian: стратосфе́ра (stratosféra) — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Vietnamese: tầng bình lưu — region of the uppermost atmosphere
  • Vietnamese: tầng tĩnh khí — region of the uppermost atmosphere