(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ is the whole of space and all the stars, planets, and other forms of matter and energy in it.
Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the ~.
N-COUNT: usu the N in sing
2.
If you talk about someone’s ~, you are referring to the whole of their experience or an important part of it.
Good writers suck in what they see of the world, re-creating their own ~ on the page...
= world
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft with poss