Universe
['juːnɪvɜːs] or ['junɪvɝs]
Definition
(noun.) everything stated or assumed in a given discussion.
(noun.) everything that exists anywhere; 'they study the evolution of the universe'; 'the biggest tree in existence'.
Checked by Judith--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.
Edited by Everett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. World, cosmos, nature, whole creation, all created things.
Typist: Sol
Definition
n. the whole system of created things: all created things viewed as one whole: the world.—adj. Universolog′ical.—ns. Universol′ogist; Universol′ogy the science of the universe or of all forms of human activity.
Typed by Borg
Examples
- The universe is non-human, thank God. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She is the child of the universe. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The fancy runs from one end of the universe to the other in collecting those ideas, which belong to any subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in their language _Lorbrulgrud_, or Pride of the Universe. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Newland Archer had been aware of these things ever since he could remember, and had accepted them as part of the structure of his universe. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Whatever the mystery which has brought forth man and the universe, it is a non-human mystery, it has its own great ends, man is not the criterion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But it's curious how much room there seems, a whole universe under there; and as cold as hell, you're as helpless as if your head was cut off. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This is also true in the universe. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Dorset, of late, had grown more than usually morose and incalculable, and Ned Silverton went about with an air that seemed to challenge the universe. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Duty, my dear Doctor, before every consideration in the universe! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In my boyish days she was the universe to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am amateurish if you like: I do _not_ think that all the universe is straining towards the obscure significance of your pictures. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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