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cosmography
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cosmography has 2 senses
- cosmography(n = noun.cognition) Array - the science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy); Array is a kind of natural science
- cosmography(n = noun.artifact) Array - a representation of the earth or the heavens; "the cosmography of Ptolemy" is a kind of representation
Derived forms noun cosmographer1, noun cosmographist1
Derived forms noun cosmographer1, noun cosmographist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
cosmography, n. [Gr. kosmografi`a; ko`smos the world + gra`fein to write: cf. F. cosmographie.].
A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cosmography, n. (pl. -ies) a description or mapping of general features of the universe.
Derivative
cosmographer n. cosmographic adj. cosmographical adj.
Etymology
ME f. F cosmographie or f. LL f. Gk kosmographia (as COSMOS(1), -GRAPHY)
ROGET THESAURUS
cosmography
World
N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.
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