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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Jackie Gleason

Meaning of "cosmos" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COSMOS

From Greek kosmos order, world, universe.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COSMOS

cosmos  [ˈkɒzmɒs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COSMOS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cosmos is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COSMOS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cosmos

Cosmos

Cosmos can be defined as a complex and orderly system, such as our Universe; the opposite of Chaos. It is the Universe regarded as an ordered system. The philosopher Pythagoras is regarded as the first person to apply the term cosmos to the order of the Universe.

Definition of cosmos in the English dictionary

The first definition of cosmos in the dictionary is the world or universe considered as an ordered system. Other definition of cosmos is any ordered system. Cosmos is also harmony; order.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COSMOS


alalagmos
ˌæləˈlæɡmɒs
Amos
ˈeɪmɒs
CMOS
ˈsiːmɒs
Deimos
ˈdeɪmɒs
demos
ˈdiːmɒs
dromos
ˈdrɒmɒs
exophthalmos
ˌɛksɒfˈθælmɒs
microcosmos
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈkɒzmɒs
moss
mɒs
nomos
ˈnɒmɒs
oakmoss
ˈəʊkˌmɒs
opisthodomos
ˌɒpɪsˈθɒdəˌmɒs
Patmos
ˈpætmɒs
rhombos
ˈrɒmɒs
Samos
ˈseɪmɒs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COSMOS

cosmological principle
cosmologically
cosmologist
cosmology
cosmonaut
cosmonautics
cosmoplastic
cosmopolis
cosmopolitan
cosmopolitanism
cosmopolite
cosmopolitic
cosmopolitical
cosmopolitism
cosmorama
cosmoramic
cosmosphere
cosmotheism
cosmothetic
cosmothetical

WORDS THAT END LIKE COSMOS

Aristarchus of Samos
atmos
Barbados
Campos
Carlos
chaos
Comoros
cos
Davos
Eos
Gros
hoummos
Jos
Laos
logos
Los Alamos
Marcos
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Santos
Thermos

Synonyms and antonyms of cosmos in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COSMOS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cosmos» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of cosmos

Translation of «cosmos» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COSMOS

Find out the translation of cosmos to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cosmos from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cosmos» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

宇宙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cosmos
570 millions of speakers

English

cosmos
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ब्रह्मांड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

космос
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cosmo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিসর্গ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cosmos
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kosmos
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kosmos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

宇宙
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우주
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kosmos
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vu trụ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அகிலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विश्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Evren
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cosmo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kosmos
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

космос
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cosmos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ο ΚΟΣΜΟΣ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kosmos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kosmos
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kosmos
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cosmos

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COSMOS»

The term «cosmos» is very widely used and occupies the 14.010 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COSMOS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cosmos» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cosmos» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cosmos

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10 QUOTES WITH «COSMOS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cosmos.
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Alfred Adler
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
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Nita Ambani
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.
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Nick Bostrom
Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been detected. Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we're not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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David Deutsch
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
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Howard Fineman
A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
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Matthew Fox
We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
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Jackie Gleason
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
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Terry Goodkind
I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
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Stephen Jay Gould
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COSMOS»

Discover the use of cosmos in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cosmos and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cosmos
With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.”—The Plain Dealer “Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a ...
Carl Sagan, 2011
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewPublished at the height of the 1980s self-help boom, ...
Walker Percy, 2011
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian ...
In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological ...
Thomas Nagel, 2012
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of ...
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Brian Greene, 2007
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Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology
This new edition brings North’s seminal book right up to the present day, as North takes a closer look at last year’s reclassification of Pluto as a “dwarf” planet and gives a thorough overview of current research.
John North, 2008
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Cosmos: A Co-Creator's Guide to the Whole-World
This is the elemental cosmic mind from which everything emanates, is manifested, and to which all ultimately returns.
Ervin Laszlo, 2010
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Cosmos
The well-known astronomer presents an illustrated guide to the universe and to Earth's relationship to it, moving from theories of creation to humankind's discovery of the cosmos, to general relativity, to space missions, and beyond
‎1985
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Passport to the Cosmos
This book brings us to the edge of material reality and beyond, shattering the boundary that has separated matter and spirit and scientific or spiritual ways of knowing.
John E. Mack
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The Life of the Cosmos
Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before.
Lee Smolin, 1997
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Cosmos
Milan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz ?one of the great novelists of our century.” His most famous novel, Cosmos, the recipient of the 1967 International Prize for Literature, is now available in a critically acclaimed translation, for ...
Witold Gombrowicz, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COSMOS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cosmos is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cosmos man cries fowl over chicken ban enforcement
The city of Cosmos ordered longtime resident Dale Jackson to remove the chickens by June 19 to comply with a city ordinance that bans ... «Crow River Media, Jul 15»
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Gambia Wins Group At Cosmos Copa
Defending champions Gambia continues its defense of the New York Cosmos Copa by advancing into the last 16 stage of the 2015 competition ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
3
Cosmos Tours and Cruises seeks to enhance flying experience
Cosmos Tours & Cruises is seeking to make the airport experience pain- free with its 2016 North America and Worldwide brochure. «TTG Digital, Jul 15»
4
Danielson teenager reaches for the cosmos
DANIELSON — A Danielson teen is hoping his love for science shines through in a video submission that could earn him a trip to a prestigious ... «Norwich Bulletin, Jul 15»
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Gumede Joins Cosmos
Jomo Cosmos have won the race for the signature of Michael Gumede. It was recently revealed by the Siya crew that Gumede has attracted ... «Soccer Laduma, Jul 15»
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What You Really Know About Bicycles
13.7: Cosmos And Culture 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Commentary On Science And Society · 13.7: Cosmos And Culture 13.7: Cosmos And ... «NPR, Jul 15»
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NASL Fall WK 1 Recap: Rowdies Overtake Cosmos in Overall Table …
The NASL Fall Season kicked off in decisive fashion, with four of the five matches ending with a winner. To little surprise, the New York Cosmos ... «Empire Of Soccer, Jul 15»
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Found: the first stars in creation
Their short, intense lives ended in giant supernova explosions that enriched the cosmos with the first elements that were heavier than helium ... «Cosmos, Jul 15»
9
Cracking the Code review
... optioned as a film with script development already under way. Bill Condie is Spectrum editor of Cosmos and edits the Cosmos news blog. «Cosmos, Jul 15»
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PSL transfer news Jomo Cosmos sign Michael Gumede
Jomo Cosmos have strengthened their ranks with the signing of exciting ... Wits defender S'boniso Gumede – who is also wanted by Cosmos. «KickOff.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cosmos [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cosmos>. May 2024 ».
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