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=== Synonyms === A term for ''universe'' among the ancient Greek philosophers from [[Pythagoras]] onwards was {{lang|grc|τὸ πᾶν}} ({{transliteration|grc|tò pân}}) 'the all', defined as all matter and all space, and {{lang|grc|τὸ ὅλον}} ({{transliteration|grc|tò hólon}}) 'all things', which did not necessarily include the void.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Liddell |author2=Scott |title=A Greek-English Lexicon |url=http://lsj.gr/wiki/πᾶς |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106193619/https://lsj.translatum.gr/wiki/%CF%80%E1%BE%B6%CF%82 |archive-date=November 6, 2018 |access-date=July 30, 2022 |website=lsj.gr |quote=πᾶς}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Liddell |author2=Scott |title=A Greek-English Lexicon |url=http://lsj.gr/wiki/ὅλος |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106185336/https://lsj.translatum.gr/wiki/%E1%BD%85%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82 |archive-date=November 6, 2018 |access-date=July 30, 2022 |website=lsj.gr |quote=ὅλος}}</ref> Another synonym was {{lang|grc|ὁ κόσμος}} ({{transliteration|grc|ho kósmos}}) meaning 'the [[world (philosophy)|world]], the [[cosmos]]'.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Liddell |author2=Scott |title=A Greek–English Lexicon |url=https://lsj.gr/wiki/κόσμος |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106193457/https://lsj.translatum.gr/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82 |archive-date=November 6, 2018 |access-date=July 30, 2022 |website=lsj.gr |quote=κόσμος}}</ref> Synonyms are also found in Latin authors ({{lang|la|totum}}, {{lang|la|mundus}}, {{lang|la|natura}})<ref>{{cite book |author=Lewis, C.T. |author2=Short, S |year=1966|orig-date=1879 |title=A Latin Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/latindictionaryf00lewi |publisher=Clarendon Press (originally published by Oxford University Press) |isbn=978-0-19-864201-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/latindictionaryf00lewi/page/n1188 1175], 1189–1190, 1881–1882}}</ref> and survive in modern languages, e.g., the [[German language|German]] words {{lang|de|Das All}}, {{lang|de|Weltall}}, and {{lang|de|Natur}} for ''universe''. The same synonyms are found in English, such as everything (as in the [[theory of everything]]), the cosmos (as in [[cosmology]]), the world (as in the [[many-worlds interpretation]]), and [[nature]] (as in [[natural law]]s or [[natural philosophy]]).<ref>{{cite book |title=The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary |volume=II |isbn=978-0-19-861117-2 |publisher= Oxford University Press |location=Oxford|date=1971 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/compacteditionof03robe/page/569 569, 909, 1900, 3821–3822] |url=https://archive.org/details/compacteditionof03robe/page/569 }}</ref>
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