universe

See also: Universe

English

Alternative forms

• Universe

Etymology

From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- +‎ -verse through backformation of -verse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/ IPA^(key): /ˈjuːniːˌvɜ(ɹ)s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnəˌvɝs/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

Proper noun

universe

1. Alternative letter-case form of Universe; Our universe.

Noun

universe (plural universes)

2. The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.

   I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity.

   1. An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
3. Everything under consideration.

   In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.

   1. (mathematics) The set of all things considered.
   2. (statistics, psychometrics) The set of all admissible observations.
      • 2005, Dato de Gruijter, Leo van der Kamp, Statistical Test Theory for Education and psychology, page 79:

        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.

   3. (marketing, economics) A sample taken from the population.
4. An imaginary collection of worlds.

   The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.

   1. (literature, films) A collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
      • 2019, June 26, Daniel Menegaz, "Tracking Annabelle's confusing journey through the Conjuring universe", Entertainment Weekly:

        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.

5. A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.

   That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe.

6. (pantheism) A deity who is equivalent to the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.

   The universe wants you to succeed.

7. (archaic) The Earth, the sphere of the world.
   • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 3–4:

     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.

Derived terms

• (the) Universe
• universeful
• universewide
• 'verse
• -verse

 

Prefixed forms

• antiuniverse
• interuniverse
• intrauniverse
• in-universe
• metauniverse, meta-universe
• nonuniverse
• out-of-universe
• subuniverse

 

English terms suffixed with -verse

Other blends not included above as derivations of -verse

• axiverse
• Connverse
• Fediverse
• infiniverse
• Jewniverse
• lumpiverse
• macroverse
• maniverse
• metaverse
• microverse
• monoverse
• netherverse
• omniverse
• superverse
• Trekiverse (= Trekverse)
• Whoniverse

Expressions: noun phrases

• accelerating universe
• accelerating universe
• alternate universe
• alternate universe
• alternative universe
• alternative universe
• block universe
• Center of the Universe, Centre of the Universe
• clockwork universe
• expanded universe
• expanded universe
• fine-tuned universe
• fine-tuned universe
• Grothendieck universe
• Grothendieck universe
• heat death of the universe
• Herbrand universe
• in universe
• island universe
• island universe
• known universe
• meta-universe
• moral universe
• moral universe
• observable universe
• parallel universe
• perpendicular universe
• perpendicular universe
• pocket universe
• pocket universe
• risk universe
• shared universe
• shared universe
• universe of discourse

Expressions: other phrases

• God does not play dice with the universe
• heat death of the universe
• in universe
• out-of-universe
• put a dent in the universe

 

Related terms

• universal
• universal set
• university

 

Translations

the Universe

• Abaza: дуна́й (dunáj)
• Abkhaz: адунеи (adunej)
• Adyghe: дунаир (dunajir)
• Afrikaans: heelal (af), universum (af)
• Albanian: gjithësi (sq) f
• Alemannic German: Ünivärsum (Alsatian)
• Amharic: ጠፈር (ṭäfär)
• Arabic: كَوْن m (kawn), الْكَوْن m (al-kawn), عَالَم (ar) m (ʕālam)

  Egyptian Arabic: كون m (kūn), أكوان f pl (ʔakwān)

  Hijazi Arabic: كون m (kōn), عَالَم m (ʕālam)

• Aragonese: uniberso m
• Armenian: տիեզերք (hy) (tiezerkʻ)
• Assamese: বিশ্বব্ৰহ্মাণ্ড (bissobrohmando), মহাজগত (mohazogot)
• Asturian: universu (ast) m
• Aymara: pacha (ay)
• Azerbaijani: kainat (az)
• Bambara: diɲɛ, duniya
• Bashkir: ғәләм (ğələm)
• Basque: unibertso (eu)
• Bavarian: Wödall
• Belarusian: сусве́т m (susvjét), сусьве́т m (susʹvjét) (Taraškievica), Сусве́т m (Susvjét)
• Bengali: মহাবিশ্ব (bn) (mohabiśśo), ব্রহ্মাণ্ড (bn) (brohmanḍo), কায়েনাত (bn) (kaẏenat), আলম (bn) (alom)
• Berber:

  Central Atlas Tamazight: ddunit

  Kabyle: ameɣṛad, ameghrad

  Tashelhit: ^{(please verify)} akksmun m

• Breton: hollved (br) m
• Bulgarian: вселе́на (bg) f (vseléna)
• Burmese: စကြဝဠာ (my) (ca.kra.wa.la), လောကဓာတ် (my) (lau:ka.dhat)
• Carpathian Rusyn: весмір m (vesmir)
• Catalan: univers (ca) m
• Chechen: тӏурнене (tʼurnene)
• Cheyenne: mȧhoo'ōme
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 宇宙 (jyu⁵ zau⁶)

  Eastern Min: 宇宙 (ṳ̄-dêu)

  Hakka: 宇宙 (yí-chhiu)

  Hokkien: 宇宙 (zh-min-nan) (í-tiū, ú-tiū)

  Mandarin: 宇宙 (zh) (yǔzhòu)

  Wu: 宇宙 (⁶yu-zeu)

• Chukchi: ӈаргынэн (ṇargynėn)
• Chuvash: ҫут тӗнче (śut tĕnč̬e)
• Cornish: ollvys m, ollves m
• Corsican: universu m
• Crimean Tatar: dünya, alem

  Cyrillic: дюнйа, алем

• Czech: vesmír (cs) m
• Danish: univers (da) n
• Dutch: heelal (nl) n, universum (nl) n
• Dzongkha: འཇིག་རྟེན། ('jig rten)
• East Futuna: atulaulau, malamanei
• Emilian: univêrs m
• Erzya: менельть-масторт (meńeľť-mastort), масторава (mastorava)
• Esperanto: universo (eo)
• Estonian: universum (et), maailmakõiksus (et)
• Faroese: alheimur m
• Fiji Hindi: sansaar
• Finnish: kaikkeus (fi), kosmos (fi), maailma (fi), maailmankaikkeus (fi), universumi (fi)
• French: univers (fr) m, Univers (fr) m

  Old French: univers m

• Friulian: univiers m
• Galician: universo (gl) m
• Georgian: სამყარო (samq̇aro)
• German: Universum (de) n, Weltall (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 m (fairƕus)
• Greek: σύμπαν (el) n (sýmpan)

  Ancient: σύμπαν n (súmpan)

• Guaraní: arapy
• Gujarati: બ્રહ્માંડ (brahmā̃ḍ)
• Haitian Creole: linivè
• Hawaiian: ao holoʻokoʻa
• Hebrew: יְקוּם (he) m (yekúm)
• Hindi: ब्रह्मांड (hi) m (brahmāṇḍ), विश्व (hi) m (viśva), दुनिया (hi) f (duniyā), जहान (hi) m (jahān), कायनात (hi) f (kāynāt), प्रपंच (hi) m (prapañc), जगत (hi) m (jagat), आलम (hi) m (ālam)
• Hungarian: világegyetem (hu), univerzum (hu), világmindenség (hu)
• Icelandic: alheimur (is) m
• Ido: universo (io)
• Ilocano: law-ang
• Indonesian: alam semesta (id)
• Ingush: ӏайлам (ˀajlam)
• Interlingua: universo
• Irish: cruinne f
• Italian: universo (it) m
• Japanese: 宇宙 (ja) (うちゅう, uchū)
• Javanese: alam semesta
• Kalmyk: орчлң (orçlñ)
• Kannada: ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾಂಡ (kn) (brahmāṇḍa)
• Kapampangan: sikluban
• Karachay-Balkar: дуния (duniya), алам (alam)
• Kashubian: swiatnica, wszechswiat m
• Kazakh: әлем (kk) (älem)
• Khakas: чайаан-чалбах (çayaan-çalbax), чир-чалбах (çir-çalbax), тилекей (tilekey)
• Khmer: សកលលោក (saʼkɑllook), ចក្រវាល (km) (cak viəl)
• Korean: 우주(宇宙) (ko) (uju)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گەردوون (ckb) (gerdûn)

  Northern Kurdish: gerdûn (ku), kinyat, karîgeh (ku), unîvers (ku)

• Kyrgyz: аалам (ky) (aalam)
• Ladin: univers m
• Lao: ຈັກກະວານ (lo) (chak ka wān)
• Latgalian: vysaine f
• Latin: ūniversum n
• Latvian: visums (lv) m
• Lezgi: дуьнья (dün’ä)
• Ligurian: universo m
• Limburgish: hielal, universum
• Lithuanian: visata f
• Lombard: univèrs m
• Low German: hielal
• Luxembourgish: Universum
• Macedonian: вселена f (vselena)
• Malagasy: erana (mg)
• Malay: alam semesta (ms), jagat raya
• Malayalam: പ്രപഞ്ചം (ml) (prapañcaṁ)
• Maltese: univérs m, holqién m
• Manx: dowan m
• Maori: ao tukupū, ao tukipū
• Marathi: विश्व (viśva)
• Mingrelian: ოქიანუ (okianu)
• Mirandese: ouniberso m
• Moksha: мастор (mastor), масторланга (mastorlanga)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: орчлон (mn) (orčlon), ертөнц (mn) (jörtönc)

  Mongolian: ᠣᠷᠴᠢᠯᠠᠩ (orčilang), ᠶᠢᠷᠲᠢᠨᠴᠦ (yirtinčü)

• Nahuatl: cemānāhuac (nah)
• Nanai: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: yágháhookáán
• Neapolitan: nevèrzo m
• Nepali: विश्व (viśwa)
• Nogai: дунья (dun’ya)
• Norman:

  Cotentinais: eunivers m

  Norman: univers m

  Norman: unnivèrs m

• North Frisian: åål
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: univers (no) n

  Nynorsk: univers n

• Occitan: univèrs (oc) m
• Odia: ବ୍ରହ୍ମାଣ୍ଡ (or) (brahmāṇḍa)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: въселенаꙗ f (vŭselenaja)

• Papiamentu: universo
• Pashto: کيهان m (kayhān), کاينات (ps) m pl (kāyenāt), عالم (ps) m ('ālam)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کِیْهان (fa) (keyhân), هَسْتی (fa) (hasti), کائِنات (fa) (kâ'enât), عالَم (fa) (âlam)

• Piedmontese: univers m
• Plautdietsch: Weltaul, Weltommfank
• Polish: wszechświat (pl) m
• Portuguese: universo (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਵਿਸ਼ਵ m (viśva), ਦੁਨੀਆ f (dunīā), ਜਹਾਨ m (jahān), ਬ੍ਰਹਿਮੰਡ (brhimaṇḍ)

• Quechua: ch'askancha
• Rhine Franconian: Weldall (Palatine)
• Romanian: univers (ro) n
• Romansch: univers m
• Russian: вселе́нная (ru) f (vselénnaja), Вселе́нная (ru) f (Vselénnaja), всесве́т m (vsesvét) (archaic, rare)
• Samogitian: vėsatuos
• Sanskrit: ब्रह्माण्ड (sa) n (brahmāṇḍa), विश्व (sa) m (viśva), जगत् (sa) n (jagat)
• Santali: ᱚᱣᱟᱝ (ôvaṅ)
• Sardinian: univérsu m
• Saterland Frisian: Al
• Scots: univers
• Scottish Gaelic: domhan m, cruinne-cè m or f, saoghal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: све̏мӣр m, васио́на f, васелена f, васељена f

  Latin: svȅmīr (sh) m, vasióna (sh) f, vaselena f, vaseljena f

• Shan: လုမ်ႈၽႃႉ (lūm phâ̰a)
• Shona: rudunhumwe
• Sicilian: universu m
• Silesian: wszechświat m
• Sinhalese: විශ්වය (si) (wiśwaya)
• Slovak: vesmír (sk) m
• Slovene: vesolje (sl) n
• Somali: koon
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: swětnišćo n, uniwersum n

  Upper Sorbian: swětnišćo n

• Sotho: legôhlê
• Southern Altai: ак айазы (ak ayazï), ак айас (ak ayas)
• Spanish: universo (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒀭𒆠 (an-ki)
• Swahili: ulimwengu (sw)
• Swedish: universum (sv) n
• Tabasaran: аьлам (a̱lam)
• Tagalog: sansinukob, uniberso
• Tajik: коинот (tg) (koyinot), олам (olam), кайҳон (tg) (kayhon)
• Tamil: அண்டம் (ta) (aṇṭam)
• Tatar: галәм (tt) (ğaläm)
• Telugu: విశ్వం (viśvaṁ)
• Thai: จักรวาล (th) (jàk-grà-waan), เอกภพ (th) (èek-gà-póp), เอกภาพ (th) (èek-gà-pâap)
• Tibetan: འཇིག་རྟེན ('jig rten)
• Tigrinya: ዓለማት (ʿalämat)
• Turkish: uzay (tr), evren (tr), cihan (tr) n, kâinat (tr)
• Turkmen: älem-jahan, älem
• Tuvan: октаргай (oktargay), бүдүмел (büdümel)
• Ukrainian: все́світ (uk) m (vsésvit), Все́світ m (Vsésvit)
• Urdu: کائِنات f (kāināt), گَیہان m (gaihān), عالَم (ur) m ('ālam), دُنْیا (ur) f (dunyā), دُنِیا (ur) f (duniyā)
• Uyghur: ئالەم (alem), كائىنات (ka'inat)
• Uzbek: olam (uz), borliq (uz), koinot (uz)
• Venetan: universo m
• Veps: mir
• Vietnamese: vũ trụ (vi) (宇宙 (vi))
• Võro: ilm
• Wallisian: 'atulaulau, mālama, malamanei
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Waray-Waray: sangkalibutan, universo
• Welsh: bydysawd (cy) m
• West Frisian: hielal (fy) n
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: אוניווערס m (univers), אַלוועלט f (alvelt)
• Yoruba: ayé, àgbáyé
• Yucatec Maya: yóok’ol kaab
• Zulu: umkhathi class 3/4

an entity similar to our universe

• Bashkir: ғәләм (ğələm)
• Catalan: univers (ca) m
• Danish: univers (da) n
• Finnish: maailmankaikkeus (fi), universumi (fi)
• French: univers (fr) m
• German: Universum (de) n
• Greek: σύμπαν (el) n (sýmpan)
• Ido: universo (io)
• Italian: universo (it) m
• Japanese: 宇宙 (ja) (うちゅう, uchū)
• Korean: 우주(宇宙) (ko) (uju)
• Macedonian: вселена f (vselena)
• Portuguese: universo (pt) m
• Russian: вселе́нная (ru) f (vselénnaja), мир (ru) m (mir)
• Scottish Gaelic: domhan m, saoghal m, cruinne-cè m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: vasióna (sh), vaseljena

• Slovene: vesolje (sl) n
• Spanish: universo (es) m

everything under consideration

• Danish: univers (da) n
• Finnish: avaruus (fi)
• Greek: σύμπαν (el) n (sýmpan)
• Hindi: ब्रह्माण्ड (hi) (brahmāṇḍ)
• Japanese: 森羅万象 (ja) (しんらばんしょう, shinrabanshō)
• Macedonian: вселена f (vselena)
• Portuguese: universo (pt) m
• Russian: вселе́нная (ru) f (vselénnaja), мир (ru) m (mir)
• Scottish Gaelic: domhan m, saoghal m, cruinne-cè m or f

an imaginary collection of worlds

• Bulgarian: вселе́на (bg) f (vseléna)
• Danish: univers (da) n
• Finnish: maailma (fi), maailmat (fi)
• German: Universum (de) n
• Greek: σύμπαν (el) n (sýmpan)
• Italian: universo (it) m
• Macedonian: вселена f (vselena)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کِیْهان (fa) (keyhân)

• Polish: uniwersum (pl)
• Portuguese: universo (pt) m
• Russian: вселе́нная (ru) f (vselénnaja), мир (ru) m (mir)
• Scottish Gaelic: domhan m, saoghal m, cruinne-cè m or f

a collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels

intense form of world in the sense of perspective or social setting

• Bashkir: донъя (donʺya)
• Danish: univers (da) n
• Greek: σύμπαν (el) n (sýmpan)
• Italian: universo (it) m
• Macedonian: вселена f (vselena)
• Portuguese: universo (pt) m
• Russian: вселе́нная (ru) f (vselénnaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: domhan m, saoghal m, cruinne-cè m or f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: (1,3) ^{(please verify)} universum (nl) n, (1) ^{(please verify)} heelal (nl) n, (2) ^{(please verify)} spectrum (nl) n, (2) ^{(please verify)} scala (nl) n
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} יקום (he) (yequm)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} universo
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} visata f
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} univers m
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ^{(please verify)} کِیْهان (fa) (keyhân)

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} univers (ro) n
• Swedish: (1,3) ^{(please verify)} universum (sv) n
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} విశ్వం (viśvaṁ)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} всесвіт (uk) m (vsesvit)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} bydysawd (cy)

See also

• om
• universe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• universe (economics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• universe (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• universe on Wikidata.Wikidata

Latin

Etymology

From ūniversus +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /uː.niˈu̯er.seː/, [uːniˈu̯ɛrs̠eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.niˈver.se/, [uniˈvɛrse]

Adverb

ūniversē (not comparable)

1. Generally; in general.

References

• “universe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “universe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• universe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French univers, from Latin ūniversus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiu̯nivɛrs/

Noun

universe

1. (Late Middle English, rare) The universe; the stars.

Related terms

• universite
• universal

Descendants

• English: universe
• Scots: universe

References

• “ūniverse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-31.