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COSMOS

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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 ("cosmos" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Meronyms (parts of "cosmos"):

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 "cosmos"):

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 "cosmos"):

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:

cosmic (inconceivably extended in space or time)

cosmic (of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals

Synonyms:

cosmea; cosmos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cosmos" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("cosmos" is a member of...):

genus Cosmos (genus of tropical American plants cultivated for their colorful flowers)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The background is the most ancient light in the history of the cosmos, dating back to 380,000 years after the big bang.

(First Stars Formed Later Than We Thought, NASA)

This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.

(Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction, NASA)

The two galaxies, first discovered by the South Pole Telescope at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, were massive and star-filled at a time when the cosmos was less than a billion years old.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

Then there was a black-eyed restaurant waiter who was a theosophist, a union baker who was an agnostic, an old man who baffled all of them with the strange philosophy that what is is right, and another old man who discoursed interminably about the cosmos and the father-atom and the mother-atom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If the element is lacking in other parts of the cosmos, it could be difficult for alien life to exist.

(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)