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English
Etymology
From Middle English, directly or via Old French univers, from Latin universum. See universe.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
the Universe
- Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
- Hypernym: universe (generalization of the Universe into a generic object)
- Coordinate terms: World, Galaxy, Cosmos, Reality
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.
1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 3–4: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.
Hyponyms
Translations
sum of everything that exists
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