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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary cos·mos \\ˈkäz-məs, 1 & 2 also -ˌmōs, -ˌmäs\\ noun ETYMOLOGY Greek kosmos DATE 1596 1. b. (1) an orderly harmonious systematic universe — compare chaos 2. a complex orderly self-inclusive system 3. plural cosmos \\-məs, -məz \\ also cos·mos·es \\-mə-səz\\ [New Latin, genus name, from Greek kosmos] : any of a genus (Cosmos) of tropical American composite herbs; especially: a widely cultivated tall annual (C. bipinnatus) with yellow or red disks and showy ray flowers [cosmos 3] English Etymology cosmos c.1200 (but not popular until 1848, as a translation of Humboldt's Kosmos), from Gk. kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement" (cf. Homeric kosmeo, used of the act of marshaling troops), with an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (cf. kosmokomes "dressing the hair"), also "the universe, the world." Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe," perhaps originally meaning "the starry firmament," but later it was extended to the whole physical world, including the earth. For specific reference to "the world of people," the classical phrase was he oikoumene (ge) "the inhabited (earth)." Septuagint uses both kosmos and oikoumene. Kosmos also was used in Christian religious writing with a sense of "worldly life, this world (as opposed to the afterlife)," but the more frequent word for this was aion, lit."lifetime, age." Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 cosmos cos·mos / 5kCzmCs; NAmE 5kB:zmous; -mEs / the cosmosnoun[sing.] the universe, especially when it is thought of as an ordered system (尤指被视为有序体系时的)宇宙: the structure of the cosmos 宇宙的结构 our place in the cosmos 我们在宇宙中的位置 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: black cosmos
cos·mos \ˈkäzməs; in senses 1 & 2 also -ˌmōs or -ˌmäs\ noun Etymology: German kosmos, from Greek, order, ornament, universe 1. -es a. : the universe conceived as an orderly and harmonious system— contrasted with chaos 2. -es : a self-inclusive system characterized by order and harmony amid complexity of detail 3. capitalized [New Latin, from Greek kosmos] : a genus of tropical American herbs (family Compositae) having opposite leaves, flowers solitary in loose corymbose panicles, and flower heads with prominent rays most cultivated varieties of which are derived from a Mexican species (C. bipinnatus) and are popular fall-blooming annuals 4. plural cosmos \-məs, -məz\ also cosmoses : any plant or flower of the genus Cosmos |