cosmos

See also: Cosmos

English

The cosmos
Cosmos bipinnatus

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, world, universe).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: kŏz'mŏs, IPA(key): /ˈkɒz.mɒs/
  • (US) enPR: kŏz'mōs, IPA(key): /ˈkɑz.moʊs/
  • Rhymes: -ɒs, -əʊs

Noun

Wikispecies cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmoses or cosmoi)

  1. The universe.
    • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
      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.
    • 2013 August 24, “A problem of cosmic proportions”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
      In Dr Wetterich’s picture of the cosmos the redshift others attribute to expansion is, rather, the result of the universe putting on weight. If atoms weighed less in the past, he reasons, the light they emitted then would, in keeping with the laws of quantum mechanics, have been less energetic than the light they emit now.
  2. An ordered, harmonious whole.
  3. Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of cosmopolitan

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɔz.moʊz/

Noun

cosmos

  1. plural of cosmo

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔs.mos/
  • (file)

Noun

cosmos m (uncountable)

  1. cosmos, universe

Portuguese

Noun

cosmos m (plural cosmos)

  1. Alternative form of cosmo
  2. cosmos (herb of the genus Cosmos)

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, world, universe).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkosmos/, [ˈkozmos]

Noun

cosmos m (plural cosmos)

  1. universe
  2. space (area beyond the atmosphere of planets)
  3. cosmos (herbs of the genus Cosmos)

Synonyms

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