Synonyms for universe
ˈyu nəˌvɜrsuni·verse

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1. universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosmnoun

   everything that exists anywhere

   "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"

   Synonyms:
   cosmos, humans, founding, humanity, public, man, instauration, cosmea, introduction, human race, innovation, creative activity, existence, humankind, conception, earth, reality, population, foundation, beingness, institution, human beings, origination, macrocosm, universe of discourse, domain, populace, globe, being, worldly concern, mankind, world, initiation, earthly concern, creation

2. population, universenoun

   (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

   "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"

   Synonyms:
   cosmos, existence, population, macrocosm, creation, world, universe of discourse

3. universe, universe of discoursenoun

   everything stated or assumed in a given discussion

   Synonyms:
   cosmos, population, existence, creation, world, macrocosm, universe of discourse

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1. universenoun

   Synonyms:
   world, cosmos, nature, whole creation, all created things

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1. List of paraphrases for "universe":

   univers, world, worlds, cosmic, cosmos

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1. Blaise Pascal:

   Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

2. Ellen Stofan:

   I think there has to be in the universe -- how easy it's going to be to find, is another question, statistically every time you're looking at a star you're likely to be looking at a planetary system. Play the math game, there's billions of stars, so eventually you'll come out saying there has to be another body where life could have evolved to a fairly sophisticated level.

3. Jeffner:

   Knowing the universe will never deliver more than one can handle brings peace to even the strongest of minds.

4. Carl Sagan:

   Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

5. Louise Bogan:

   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy