universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/
ipa: /ˈjuːniːˌvɜ(ɹ)s/
ipa: /ˈjuːnəˌvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: universes
form: Universe
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.
Senses: examples: text: Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?
glosses: The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
glosses: Everything under consideration.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Everything under consideration.
The set of all things considered.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005, Dato de Gruijter, Leo van der Kamp, Statistical Test Theory for Education and psychology, page 79:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Everything under consideration.
The set of all admissible observations.
qualifier: psychometrics
topics: business
economics
marketing
sciences
glosses: Everything under consideration.
A sample taken from the population.
examples: text: The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
glosses: An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2019, June 26, Daniel Menegaz, "Tracking Annabelle's confusing journey through the Conjuring universe", Entertainment Weekly
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: 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.
qualifier: films
examples: text: That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.
glosses: A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
examples: text: The universe wants you to succeed.
glosses: A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: The Earth, the sphere of the world.
Derived terms: sense: the
word: Universe
word: universeful
word: universewide
word: 'verse
word: -verse
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word: antiuniverse
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word: interuniverse
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word: intrauniverse
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word: in-universe
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word: metauniverse
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word: meta-universe
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word: nonuniverse
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word: out-of-universe
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word: subuniverse
sense: Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
word: axiverse
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word: Connverse
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word: Fediverse
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word: infiniverse
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word: Jewniverse
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word: lumpiverse
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word: macroverse
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word: maniverse
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word: metaverse
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word: microverse
sense: Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
word: monoverse
sense: Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
word: netherverse
sense: Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
word: omniverse
sense: Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
word: superverse
sense: Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
alt: = Trekverse
word: Trekiverse
sense: Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse
word: Whoniverse
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word: accelerating universe
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word: alternate universe
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word: alternative universe
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word: block universe
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word: Center of the Universe
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word: Centre of the Universe
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word: clockwork universe
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word: expanded universe
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word: fine-tuned universe
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word: Grothendieck universe
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word: heat death of the universe
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word: Herbrand universe
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word: in universe
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word: island universe
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word: known universe
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word: meta-universe
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word: mirror universe
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word: moral universe
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word: observable universe
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word: parallel universe
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word: perpendicular universe
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word: pocket universe
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word: quantum universe
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word: risk universe
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word: shared universe
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word: universe of discourse
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word: God does not play dice with the universe
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word: heat death of the universe
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word: in universe
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word: in what universe
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word: out-of-universe
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word: put a dent in the universe
Related terms: universal
universal set
university
om
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