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MACROCOSM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Everything that exists anywhere
Example:
the biggest tree in existence
Synonyms:
cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("macrocosm" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Meronyms (parts of "macrocosm"):
celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)
estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object (a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere)
Meronyms (members of "macrocosm"):
extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "macrocosm"):
closed universe ((cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter)
natural order (the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws)
nature (the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.)
Derivation:
macrocosmic (relating to or constituting a macrocosm)
