universe

All space-time, matter, and energy, including the solar system, all stars and galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole.

A hypothetical whole of space-time, matter, and energy that is purported to exist simultaneously with but to be different from this universe.

A model or conception of the earth and everything else that exists.

The human race or a subset of it.

A sphere of interest, activity, or understanding.

The totality of existing things; all that is in dynamical connection with general experience taken collectively—embracing the Creator and creation; or psychical and material objects, but excluding the Creator; or material objects only.

The whole world; all mankind; all that meets us in experience, in a loose sense.