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MICROCOSM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microcosm mean? 

MICROCOSM (noun)
  The noun MICROCOSM has 1 sense:

1. a miniature model of somethingplay

  Familiarity information: MICROCOSM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MICROCOSM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A miniature model of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

example; model (a representative form or pattern)


 Context examples 


There is one sentence in it, however—namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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