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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 something
Familiarity information: MICROCOSM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A miniature model of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("microcosm" is a kind of...):
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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