universe
Meanings
name
- Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.
noun
- The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
- Everything under consideration.
- The set of all things considered.
- The set of all admissible observations.
- A sample taken from the population.
- An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.
- A collection of stories with characters and settings that typically share a continuity but are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
- A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
- A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- The Earth, the sphere of the world.
name
- Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
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From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- + -verse through backformation of -verse.
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