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Grammar : Noun
Spell : koz-muh s, -mohs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒz məs, -moʊs



Definition of cosmos

Origin :
  • c.1200 (but not popular until 1848, as a translation of Humboldt's Kosmos), from Latinized form of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array;" also "to establish (a government or regime);" "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women). Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (cf. kosmokomes "dressing the hair") as well as "the universe, the world."
  • Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but later it was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. For specific reference to "the world of people," the classical phrase was he oikoumene (ge) "the inhabited (earth)." Septuagint uses both kosmos and oikoumene. Kosmos also was used in Christian religious writing with a sense of "worldly life, this world (as opposed to the afterlife)," but the more frequent word for this was aion, literally "lifetime, age."
  • noun universe
  • noun ordered system
Example sentences :
  • And where once burned the eye of the Cosmos will be naught but a hideous emptiness.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • It is the skeleton, the structure of life, love, the cosmos.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • For a list of historic "dark days," see Humboldt, Cosmos, 1-120.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
  • It was a ghostly reddish thing which filled half the cosmos.
  • Extract from : « Sand Doom » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
  • Extract from : « Personality in Literature » by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
  • God is a part of the cosmos, and yet he is distinct from it and from us, or we could not worship him.
  • Extract from : « Personality in Literature » by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
  • The modeling room has remained in charge of Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff.
  • Extract from : « Eighth Annual Report » by Various
  • The moon is the center of our terrestrial individuality in the cosmos.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • And which still seems to me the real truth, the clue to the cosmos.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • And as living individuals we are the one, pure clue to our own cosmos.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence

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