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universe

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u=ni=verse

CIDE DICTIONARY

universen. [L. universum, from universus universal; unus one + vertere, versum, to turn, that is, turned into one, combined into one whole; cf. F. univers. See One, and Verse.].
     All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the to~ pa^n of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.  [1913 Webster]
    "How may I
    Adore thee, Author of this universe
    And all this good to man!
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

universe, n.
1 all existing things; the whole creation; the cosmos.
2 all mankind.
3 Statistics & Logic all the objects under consideration.

Idiom
universe of discourse Logic = sense 3.
Etymology
F univers f. L universum neut. of universus combined into one, whole f. UNI- + versus past part. of vertere turn

THESAURUS

universe

Anschauung, angle, angle of vision, bailiwick, basis, circle, corner, cosmos, creation, domain, eye, footing, frame of reference, framework, light, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, mental outlook, microcosm, milieu, nature, outlook, place, point of view, position, province, quarter, reference system, regard, respect, side, sight, situation, slant, sphere, stand, standpoint, system, territory, view, viewpoint, world

ROGET THESAURUS

universe

World

N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.


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