Definitions | microcosm |
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- a smaller system which is representative of or analogous to a larger one
- Though our town is small and provincial, it is a true microcosm to the country as a whole.
- (archaic) a small, complete world
Translations: Etymology: From the French microcosme, from the Latin microcosmus, from the Greek "small" + (kosmos) "world"
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