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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Microcosm \Mi"cro*cosm\, n. [F. microcosme, L. microcosmus fr
Gr mikro`s small + ko`smos the world.]
A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by
Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior
universe or great world. Opposed to {macrocosm}. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
microcosm
n : a miniature model of something
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