universe
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English
Alternative forms
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.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/ IPA(key): /ˈjuːniːˌvɜ(ɹ)s/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈjuːnəˌvɝs/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Proper noun
universe
- Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.
Noun
universe (plural universes)
- The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity.
- An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
- Everything under consideration.
- In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
- (mathematics) The set of all things considered.
- (statistics, psychometrics) The set of all admissible observations.
- 2005, Dato de Gruijter, Leo van der Kamp, Statistical Test Theory for Education and psychology, page 79:
- 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.
- (marketing, economics) A sample taken from the population.
- An imaginary collection of worlds.
- The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
- (literature, films) A collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
- 2019, June 26, Daniel Menegaz, "Tracking Annabelle's confusing journey through the Conjuring universe", Entertainment Weekly:
- 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.
- 2019, June 26, Daniel Menegaz, "Tracking Annabelle's confusing journey through the Conjuring universe", Entertainment Weekly:
- A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
- That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.
- (pantheism) A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- The universe wants you to succeed.
- (archaic) The Earth, the sphere of the world.
- 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.
Derived terms
Prefixed forms
Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
Expressions: noun phrases
- accelerating universe
- accelerating universe
- alternate universe
- alternate universe
- alternative universe
- alternative universe
- block universe
- Center of the Universe, Centre of the Universe
- clockwork universe
- expanded universe
- expanded universe
- fine-tuned universe
- fine-tuned universe
- Grothendieck universe
- Grothendieck universe
- heat death of the universe
- Herbrand universe
- in universe
- island universe
- island universe
- known universe
- meta-universe
- moral universe
- moral universe
- observable universe
- parallel universe
- perpendicular universe
- perpendicular universe
- pocket universe
- pocket universe
- risk universe
- shared universe
- shared universe
- universe of discourse
Expressions: other phrases
Related terms
Translations
the Universe
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an entity similar to our universe
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everything under consideration
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an imaginary collection of worlds
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intense form of world in the sense of perspective or social setting
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Latin
Etymology
From ūniversus + -ē (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
Adverb
ūniversē (not comparable)
- Generally; in general.
References
- “universe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “universe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- universe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French univers, from Latin ūniversus.
Pronunciation
Noun
universe
- (Late Middle English, rare) The universe; the stars.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “ūniverse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-31.