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Microcosm

Microcosm Meaning & Definition
Microcosm Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Microcosm?

[n] a miniature model of something

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Microcosm In Webster's Dictionary

\Mi"cro*cosm\, n. [F. microcosme, L. microcosmus, fr. Gr. mikro`s small + ko`smos the world.] A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to {macrocosm}. --Shak.

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