cosmos
Syllables: cos·mos/ˈkɒzmɒs/US/ˈkɑzməs/
cosmos noun: the universe regarded as a system with harmony and order. Also the plural of cosmo.
Noun (1)
cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmoses or cosmoi)
- The universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.
- This doctrine [the nebular hypothesis] supposes all the material universe to have been once in a fluid or nebular condition, and that, by the operation of universal gravitation and the thousand other laws of nature, the nebular matter has been mainly aggregated into masses, and the existing cosmoi...1850 August, “Art. V.—The Baron Humboldt’s ‘Cosmos.’ The Physical History of the Universe Explained and Displayed.”, in J[ames] D[unwoody] B[rownson] De Bow, editor, De Bow’s Review of the Southern...
- It [the earth] was in the centre of the Kosmos; it remained stationary because of its equal distance from all parts of the outer revolving spheres; there was no cause determining it to move upward rather than downward or sideways, therefore it remained still. Its exhalations nourished the fire in...1865, George Grote, “Speculative Philosophy in Greece, before and in the Time of Sokrates”, in Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 6–7
- A harmonious, ordered whole.
- This simple cell is a cosmos in this respect: it represents the laws of the universe in changes of matter, and clearly exemplifies their workings in the oral cavity.1890 May 14, S. B. Palmer, “Matter and Force in the Oral Cavity”, in James W[illiam] White, editor, The Dental Cosmos: A Monthly Record of Dental Science. […], volume XXXII, number 7, Philadelphia...
- Obviously, there are multiple cosmoses in the debate, out of which we picked four. The two first can be understood as compromise cosmoses. […] There is the cosmos of the reformer, which took by and large shape in the EDDP and which we entitled Public Future. Then there is the cosmos of the existing...2022, Tobias Baitsch, Amita Bhide, “Politics of Land Use Regulations”, in Luca Pattaroni, Amita Bhide, Christine Lutringer, editors, Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai...
- Harmony, order.
- He [Frederick I of Prussia] founded Universities, this poor King; University of Halle; Royal Academy of Berlin, [Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibniz presiding: he fought for Protestantism;—did what he could for the cause of Cosmos versus Chaos, after his fashion.1858, Thomas Carlyle, “King Friedrich I. again”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III, page 370
- Antonyms:
- chaos
Noun (2)
cosmos (countable and uncountable, plural cosmos)
- Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
- This beautiful plant was discovered in Mexico, before 1789; as seeds of it sent to Madrid produced plants, which blossomed in that year in the Royal Botanic Garden of Spain. It was first described and figured in 1797, by [Antonio José] Cavanilles, who called it Cosmos, from the Greek word Kosmos...1840, [Jane] Loudon, “Compositæ”, in The Ladies’ Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals, London: William Smith, […], →OCLC, pages 184–185
- COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS; var. atro-sanguineus. Various-leaved Cosmos; deep blood-flowered var. […] Seeds of this plant were received by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, from Mexico. It is doubtless a handsome species of Cosmos. The question is if it can be safely referred to any described species.1861, William Jackson Hooker, “Tab. 5227. COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS; var. atro-sanguineus.”, in Samuel Curtis, editor, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, Comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew and of...
Proper noun capitalized: Cosmos
Cosmos
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cosmos is also the plural of cosmo.
cosmos meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Telugu and Gujarati
cosmos in Marathi
- कॉसमॉस, कॉस्मॉस
cosmos in Urdu
- کاسموس, کوسموس
cosmos in Telugu
- కాస్మోస్
cosmos in Gujarati
- કોસ્મોસ, કોસમોસ
More languagesFewer languages
- cosmos in Nepali
- कास्मोस
- cosmos in Tagalog
- kosmos, mayaw
- cosmos in Arabic
- فَضَاء faḍāʔ, كَوْن kawn, الْكَوْن al-kawn
- cosmos in Malay
- kosmos
- cosmos in Indonesian
- kosmos
- cosmos in Persian
- کیهان keyhân
- cosmos in Thai
- จักรวาล jàk-grà-waan
- cosmos in Vietnamese
- vũ trụ
Examples of cosmos in a sentence
- Can you conceive a process by which you, an organic being, are in the same way dissolved into the cosmos, and then by a subtle reversal of the conditions reassembled once more?"1929 January, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Disintegration Machine”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray, […]...
- The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.1980, Carl Sagan, “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean”, in Cosmos, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 4:
- Along with this question of order was the question of whether there was one cosmos or many ‘cosmoi’.2001, Andrew Gregory, “The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life: Consider Your Origins”, in Jon Turney, editor, Eureka! The Birth of Science...
- In Dr [Christof] Wetterich's picture of the cosmos the redshift others attribute to expansion is, rather, the result of the universe putting on weight.2013 August 24, “Dark energy: A problem of cosmic proportions”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850, London: The Economist Group...
Antonyms of cosmos
Forms of cosmos
| plural | cosmoses |
|---|---|
| plural | cosmoi |
| plural | cosmos |
| alternative form (archaic) | kosmos |
Origin of cosmos
From Middle English cossmos (“the universe; the world”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “order; universe; the earth, the world; decoration, ornament”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to announce, proclaim; to put in order”). The plural form cosmoi is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόσμοι (kósmoi).
Borrowed from translingual Cosmos (genus name), from New Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “decoration, ornament; order; universe; the earth, the world”) (referring to its elegant leaves); see further at etymology 1.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from cosmos
Questions about cosmos
- What does cosmos mean?
- Cosmos means the universe regarded as a system with harmony and order.
- What is cosmos in Marathi?
- Cosmos in Marathi is कॉसमॉस, कॉस्मॉस. See Cosmos meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use cosmos in a sentence?
- Can you conceive a process by which you, an organic being, are in the same way dissolved into the cosmos, and then by a subtle reversal of the conditions reassembled once more?"
- What part of speech is cosmos?
- Cosmos can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cosmos?
- Cosmos is pronounced /ˈkɒzmɒs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cosmos?
- The plural of cosmos is cosmoses.
Words near cosmos in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosmos (page history and authors); Cosmos (page history and authors); cosmos (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cosmos (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cosmos (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cosmos (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cosmos (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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