microcosmos

noun

microcosmos

noun

Etymology From micro- + cosmos.

1

A small or microscopic cosmos; a microcosm.

  • So the double men of Aristophanes are microcosmoi (p. 566); as the world is divided, so are they.1916, Classical Philology, volume 11, University of Chicago Press, page 222:

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