Macrocosm

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The entire world; the universe.
  • n. A system reflecting on a large scale one of its component systems or parts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.
  • n. The universe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See microcosm.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The great world; the universe, or the visible system of worlds: opposed to microcosm, or the little world constituted by man. The conception dates back to Democritus (born 460 b. c.). See microcosm.
  • n. The entire mass of anything of which man forms a part; the whole of any division of nature or of knowledge.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. everything that exists anywhere
  • Antonym
    microcosm   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    macroworld   
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    microcosm   
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