COSMOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cosmos mean? 

• COSMOS (noun)
  The noun COSMOS has 2 senses:

1. everything that exists anywhere

2. any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals

  Familiarity information: COSMOS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COSMOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Everything that exists anywhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world

Context example:

the biggest tree in existence

Hypernyms ("cosmos" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Meronyms (parts of "cosmos"):

celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)

estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object (a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere)

Meronyms (members of "cosmos"):

extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cosmos"):

closed universe ((cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter)

natural order (the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws)

nature (the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.)

Derivation:

cosmic (inconceivably extended in space or time)

cosmic (of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cosmea; cosmos

Hypernyms ("cosmos" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("cosmos" is a member of...):

genus Cosmos (genus of tropical American plants cultivated for their colorful flowers)

 Context examples 

In the process, they created the largest guide to spotting dark matter in the cosmos ever drawn.

(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)

Phenomena across the Universe emit radiation spanning the entire electromagnetic spectrum — from high-energy gamma rays, which stream out from the most energetic events in the cosmos, to lower-energy microwaves and radio waves.

(Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy, ESA/NASA)

One possibility is that dark energy, already known to be accelerating the cosmos, may be shoving galaxies away from each other with even greater—or growing—strength.

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Findings of a new study suggest this has something do with the element phosphorus lacking in the cosmos.

(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

High-energy neutrinos are hard-to-catch particles that scientists think are created by the most powerful events in the cosmos, such as galaxy mergers and material falling onto supermassive black holes.

(NASA’s Fermi Traces Source of Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole, NASA)

The chemical elements in these grains are forged inside stars and are scattered across the cosmos when the stars die, most spectacularly in supernova explosions, the final fate of short-lived, massive stars.

(Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars, ESO)

The bonds of the flesh had little part in my cosmos of love.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A pulsar is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that sweeps regular pulses of radiation in two symmetrical beams across the cosmos.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so "far back" in the cosmos is rare.

(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)

Material stretches away from the blinding brightness of the galactic plane itself, becoming more clearly observable against the darker background of the cosmos.

(A Galaxy on the Edge, ESO)