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Webster 1913 Edition


Megacosm

Meg′a-cosm

,
Noun.
[
Mega-
+ Gr. [GREEK] world.]
See
Macrocosm
.
Croft.

Webster 1828 Edition


Megacosm

MEG'ACOSM

,
Noun.
[Gr. great, and world.] The great world.

Definition 2024


megacosm

megacosm

English

Noun

megacosm (plural megacosms)

  1. (obsolete) A macrocosm.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 255:
      Howsoever, over their cloistering walls and into the map of the megacosm, the two professors continued to launch their cadres of spellbound familiars and enslaved disciples.