microcosm noun

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noun

/ˈmaɪkrəʊkɒzəm/

/ˈmaɪkrəʊkɑːzəm/

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a thing, a place or a group that has all the features and qualities of something much largerThe family is a microcosm of society. compare macrocosm

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French microcosme or medieval Latin microcosmus, from Greek mikros kosmos ‘little world’.

Idioms

in microcosm

on a small scaleThe developments in this town represent in microcosm what is happening in the country as a whole.

See microcosm in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

11 January 2026

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