Meaning

Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe..

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1. Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.
2. The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
3. Everything under consideration.
4. An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.
5. A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
6. (pantheism) A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
7. (archaic) The Earth, the sphere of the world.

Example Sentences

Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?

In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.

The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.

That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.

The universe wants you to succeed.

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.

Word Forms

• Universe
• universes

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Use universe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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