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microcosmos

noun

Etymology

From micro- + cosmos.

  1. learned borrowing from κόσμοι
  2. derived from *ḱens-✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to put in order”
  3. derived from κόσμος — “order; universe; the earth, the world; decoration, ornament”
  4. inherited from cossmos — “the universe; the world”
  5. prefixed as microcosmos — “micro + cosmos”

Definitions

  1. A small or microscopic cosmos

    A small or microscopic cosmos; a microcosm.

    • So the double men of Aristophanes are microcosmoi (p. 566); as the world is divided, so are they.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microcosmos. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA