Cosmos: alternatives and connections

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

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Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-…

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Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-…

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The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so dis…

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The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.

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All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the La…

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The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.