Picture gathering everything that exists — every star, every stretch of space, every bit of matter — into one huge whole. Universe is like that 'everything added together into one': so big there's nothing outside it.
From the word’s history
Universe comes from Latin universum — unus (one) + versus, the past participle of vertere (to turn), literally 'turned into one.' That lines up with its core: taking all the scattered stars, space, and things and seeing them as one single whole.
universe 來自拉丁文 universum，拆開是 unus（一）+ versus（vertere「轉」的過去分詞），字面是「轉成一體」。這正好對上它的核心：把所有分散的星球、空間、萬物，看成合而為一的一個整體。
etymonline.com/word/universe（Latin universum, unus「one」+ versus, pp. of vertere「to turn」）
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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
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Universename/ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/
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Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
- Meronyms: observable universe, Galaxy, Earth, earth
- Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the Universe.
universenoun/ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/
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The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?
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The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
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Everything under consideration.
- In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
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mathematicssciencesEverything under consideration.
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mathematicssciencesstatisticsEverything under consideration.
- In general content-related evidence demonstrates the degree to which the sample of items, tasks or questions on a test is representative of some defined universe or domain of content.
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businesseconomicsmarketingEverything under consideration.
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An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.
- The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
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literaturemediapublishingAn imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting.
- Annabelle Comes Home (the 7th and most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, and the 3rd to focus on Annabelle) is a direct sequel to both previous Annabelle movies, which occurred before the events of The Conjuring – but take place after the events of the 2013 franchise-starter.
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A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
- That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.
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A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.
- The universe wants you to succeed.
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archaicThe Earth, the sphere of the world.
- 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.
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