Cosmos

Quick meaning: Cosmos is a noun meaning (countable) The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.

Meaning

(countable) The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Harmony, order.
2. Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
3. plural of cosmo

Example Sentences

Can you conceive a process by which you, an organic being, are in the same way dissolved into the cosmos, and then by a subtle reversal of the conditions reassembled once more?"

He [Frederick I of Prussia] founded Universities, this poor King; University of Halle; Royal Academy of Berlin, [Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibniz presiding: he fought for Protestantism;—did what he could for the cause of Cosmos versus Chaos, after his fashion.

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

This doctrine [the nebular hypothesis] supposes all the material universe to have been once in a fluid or nebular condition, and that, by the operation of universal gravitation and the thousand other laws of nature, the nebular matter has been mainly aggregated into masses, and the existing cosmoi been developed.

Word Forms

• cosmoses
• cosmoi

Synonyms for cosmos

Depending on context, synonyms include existence, macrocosm, world, creation, nature, universe.

Antonyms for cosmos

Common opposites include chaos.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include universe, macrocosm, creation, world, nature, existence.

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