the whole collection of existing things

everything that exists anywhere; " they study the evolution of the universe"; " the biggest tree in existence"

everything stated or assumed in a given discussion

All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.

The whole system of created things.

The whole system of created things: all created things viewed as one whole: the world.

All existing material things considered as one; system of creation.

The aggregate of all existing things; the whole creation; all mankind.

The system of created things viewed as one whole.

Come, let us go, for the universe is waiting! – Indian Boyhood by [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

Miss Anne, we have the most wonderful child in the universe. – The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by William J. Locke

Speech moves the universe. – Seraphita by Honore de Balzac

I saw that in its depth far down is lying Bound up with love together in one volume, What through the universe in leaves is scattered; Substance, and accident, and their operations, All interfused together in such wise That what I speak of is one simple light. – Divine-Comedy-Longfellow-s-Translation-Complete by Dante Alighieri

It don't look like a part of the same universe to me. – Vailima-Letters by Stevenson, Robert Louis

They seemed to themselves to be alone, the only two beings in the universe. – The Gods are Athirst by Anatole France

You were Immediately lord of the universe. – An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Pierre Nicole

Nothing in this universe is without its use, and no pleasure or pain is without its compensation or balance. – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

It is true that the Gods of the universe and I are not total strangers. – Feet Of Clay by Phillip Hoskins

We have learned to know that there is just one force in the universe. – Our Unitarian Gospel by Minot Savage

I have wondered whether the universe or I were mad. – The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne by William J. Locke

For the law to which he yields is at once the law of the whole universe, and the law of his own nature as a part of the universe. – The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William de Witt Hyde

How big's the universe, Harry? – The Worlds of Joe Shannon by Frank M. Robinson

She was not going to have any bills running up against her at the other end of the universe. – Superseded by May Sinclair

Instead, it left them a universe to breathe in. – Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

It seemed to him that the spirit of the universe must be a monstrous calivan since children had to die. – Marriage by H. G. Wells