universe
noun
- everything that exists
- hypothetical alternate reality
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/ / /ˈjunəˌvɝs/ / /ˈjʉːnɪˌvɜːs/
name
Etymology: From Middle English, directly or via Old French univers, from Latin universum. See universe.
- Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
“Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the Universe.”
“The Universe will always be more powerful and intelligent than the human beings.”
noun
Etymology: 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.
- The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
“Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?”
- The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- Everything under consideration.
“In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.”
- Everything under consideration.
- Everything under consideration.
“In general content-related evidence demonstrates the degree to which the sample of items, tasks or questions on a test is representative of some defined universe or domain of content.”
- Everything under consideration.
- An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.
“The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.”
- An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.
“Annabelle Comes Home (the 7th and most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, and the 3rd to focus on Annabelle) is a direct sequel to both previous Annabelle movies, which occurred before the events of The Conjuring – but take place after the events of the 2013 franchise-starter.”
- A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
“That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.”
- A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
“The universe wants you to succeed.”
- The Earth, the sphere of the world.
“Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.”