cosmos
cosmos
Definition
cos·mos (käz′məs; for 1-3, also, -mōs′, -mäs′)
noun
- the universe considered as a harmonious and orderly system
- Rare harmony; order
- any complete and orderly system
- pl. cos′·mos any of a genus (Cosmos) of tropical American plants of the composite family, with featherlike leaves and heads of white, pink, or purple flowers
Etymology: ME < Gr kosmos, universe, harmony
cosmos
Synonyms
cosmos
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- create: Ormuzd was the all powerful, all wise and all good who created the cosmos.
- order: The movement, inspired by the late Father Edward Holloway, posits that God works through evolution to bring about an ordered cosmos.
- make: Then the seed begat a Great Archon who used what was in the seed to make the material cosmos.
- explore: Through studying them humans have continually enlarged their horizons and explored the cosmos.
- understand: Self organizing systems are part of the way science is beginning to understand the real cosmos in a way that traditional science cannot.
- see: But why is it not possible for us to see the total cosmos?
Preposition: as
- whole: He is mystical, and seeks to comprehend the cosmos as a whole, to relate himself to its embracing totality.
Adjective modifier
- entire: The point about which the entire cosmos spins is Mount Meru.
- whole: Adam messed up the Garden, Jesus restores the whole cosmos.
- vast: The vast, unknown cosmos is brought into order, the earth having its proper place in the center.
- physical: Sanity must accept that we are physical beings, living in a physical world in a physical cosmos.
- traditional: In the traditional cosmos, there is nothing random; there is no pure chance.
- own: Maori mythology has also interwoven itself into my own poetical cosmos.
Modifies a noun
- holiday: Cosmos Holidays â Which travel companies are they connected to?
- bipinnatus: June: Cosmos bipinnatus Purity This cheerful summer border plant is our Plant of the Month for June... .
- plc: Our sister companies include: Cosmos Holidays plc, Avro Plc, Monarch Airlines Limited, and Cosmos Coach Tours Limited.
Noun used with modifier
- material: Then the seed begat a Great Archon who used what was in the seed to make the material cosmos.
- micro: Traveling with ATLAS into the micro cosmos into an area of unknown physics.
Preposition: in
- way: Self organizing systems are part of the way science is beginning to understand the real cosmos in a way that traditional science cannot.
Preposition: for
- year: A real star, shining out there in the cosmos for light years to come.
cosmos Quotes
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
The philosophy which isso important in each of us isnot a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
Browse dictionary entries near cosmos
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- Cosmoline
- cosmography
- cosmogony
- cosmo-
- cosmic rays
- cosmotron
- cosponsor
- Cossack
- cosset
- cost
- cost accounting
- cost and freight
- cost basis
- cost-benefit
- cost-benefit analysis
