## Meanings
1. Everything that exists, including all of space, time, and matter.
2. The complete imaginary world in which a story takes place.
3. A person's whole world or way of seeing things.

## Examples
- Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the universe.
- The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
- That didn't just rock my world, it rocked my universe.

## Derived Forms
- antiuniverse
- axiverse
- connverse
- fediverse
- in-universe
- infiniverse
- interuniverse
- intrauniverse
- jewniverse
- lumpiverse
- macroverse
- maniverse

## Related Forms
- om
- universal
- university

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: universe
- Root: univers
- Root: universum
- Affix: uni- - one

## Etymology
From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- + -verse through backformation of -verse.

## AI Etymology
Universe is from Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- + -verse through backformation of -verse. In present-day use, it can mean everything that exists, including all of space, time, and matter, or the complete imaginary world in which a story takes place.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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