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chiliocosm

chiliocosm noun: a collection of many worlds.

Noun

chiliocosm (plural chiliocosms)

  1. A collection of many worlds.
    • It is he who in the Fa houa king is called the Lord of the Savaloka, the great Brahma, who governs the grand chiliocosm, that is the greatest of the three aggregations of universes, containing a thousand million of suns, of Sumerus, and quadruple continents such as we behold.1848, Faxian, Abel Rémusat, & Julius von Klaproth, The Pilgrimage of Fa Hian, page 131
    • Beyond one such chiliocosm, there lies another and so on to endless. All chiliocosms alike are under the domination of the Supreme Law of Nature of the Law of Karma.2003, Pram Nguyen, The Ultimate Theory of the Universe, →ISBN, page 233

Examples of chiliocosm in a sentence

  • So, a better translation is put forward: A tiny flower represents a chiliocosm, as a single tree covers the bodhi.2015, Ford Lumban Gaol, Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences, →ISBN:
  • The first order chiliocosm encompasses one thousand worlds, each of them identically structured, with Mount Meru at the center, surrounded by four major continents and eight subcontinents.2016, Text, History, and Philosophy: Abhidharma across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions, →ISBN, page 319:

Forms of chiliocosm

pluralchiliocosms

Origin of chiliocosm

From chilia- + Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”).

Questions about chiliocosm

What does chiliocosm mean?
Chiliocosm means a collection of many worlds.
How do you use chiliocosm in a sentence?
So, a better translation is put forward: A tiny flower represents a chiliocosm, as a single tree covers the bodhi.
What part of speech is chiliocosm?
Chiliocosm is a noun.
What is the plural of chiliocosm?
The plural of chiliocosm is chiliocosms.

Words near chiliocosm in the dictionary

  1. Chilingarians
  2. Chilingaryan
  3. Chilingaryans
  4. chilinid
  5. chilinids
  6. chiliocosm
  7. chiliocosms
  8. chiliogramme
  9. chiliogrammes
  10. chiliometre
  11. chiliometres

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