universe

The universe is the whole space we live in and everything it contains: our Milky Way and billions of other galaxies that are not all known are part of our universe.

Example: According to recent theories, our universe would be bent on itself, being finite but having no frontiers.

A universe can also stand for a world or an area, fictional or not, considered in itself.

Example: Musical universes are so varied that we cannot know them all.

A universe is also an imaginary set of worlds invented by someone.

Example: The universe created by Tolkien is surprisingly dense and imaginative.

The complete set of numerous possibilities.

Example: Among this universe of choices, just one will be the good one.