universe
The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
Example
“Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?”
Other meanings
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.”
Synonyms
- existence
- creation
- world
- cosmos
A kind of
- natural object
Kinds of universe
- closed universe
- natural order
- nature
Related words
- cyberverse
- superuniverse
- Thronesiverse
- universism
- universist
- universology
- universeful
- universewide
- antiuniverse
- interuniverse
- intrauniverse
- in-universe
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "universum" (all things, as a whole, the universe).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “universe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.