microcosm: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement 101 Questions Answered! What do Muslims believe? How bad is bird flu? Who's to blame for income tax? Click here for the KnowledgeNews answers!      Word of the Day for Saturday, April 29, 2006   microcosm \MY-kruh-koz-uhm\, noun: 1. A little world. Hence, man or human nature as a supposed epitome of the world or universe (compare macrocosm). 2. A smaller, representative system having analogies to a larger system.   The monarch and his followers thought of the court as a microcosm of how the kingdom ought to be, the harmonious expression of a social order centred on the monarch. -- John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination There is a classic Jimmy Stewart movie, Magic Town, about "Grandview," a small town in the Midwest that is a perfect statistical microcosm of the United States, a place where the citizens' opinions match perfectly with Gallup polls of the entire nation. -- James S. Fishkin, The Voice of the People New York saw itself as a quasi-independent political and cultural entity that was both a microcosm of and a model for the nation as a whole. -- Robert A. M. Stern, New York 1880 Microcosm comes from Greek mikros kosmos, "small world." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for microcosm   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6688546-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802