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Universal   /jˌunəvˈərsəl/   Listen
Universal

adjective
1.
Of worldwide scope or applicability.  Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, world-wide, worldwide.  "The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time" , "Universal experience"
2.
Applicable to or common to all members of a group or set.  "Rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"
3.
Adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations.  "Universal chuck" , "Universal screwdriver"
noun
1.
(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages.  Synonym: linguistic universal.
2.
(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class.  Synonym: universal proposition.
3.
A behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings.
4.
Coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions.  Synonym: universal joint.



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"Universal" Quotes from Famous Books



... due, broadly and generally, to our living under a system of universal competition for the means of existence, the remedy for which is equally ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant
... even uncanny look. In meeting the young man's eyes, the old gentleman was ever and anon conscious of a disposition to recoil and shudder, and, at the same time, felt impelled, by what resembled a magnetic attraction, to gaze the harder. Did the very fact that some universal human characteristic was omitted from this person's nature endow him with an exceptional and peculiar power? There was an uncertainty, in talking and associating with him, as to what he would do or ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... to inform you of the death of Lord Auckland, after a few hours' illness. He was on a visit to Lord Ashburton, near Winchester, on Saturday—seized with a fit—never spoke after—and died this morning. You may well imagine the universal sorrow at such a loss; and I am sure you will join in that, for I know well the friendship that existed ...
— The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II • Thomas Lord Cochrane
... of the fact that she had tragically assisted at the entrance of Jane's six children into the world, she still possessed an insatiable appetite for the perpetually recurring scenes of birth and death. Then only did her natural bent of mind appear to be justified by universal phenomena. ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... "in consideration of the promised delights of his system,—so very proper, as they certainly are, to be appreciated by Fourier's countrymen,—I cannot but wonder that universal France did not adopt his theory at a moment's warning. But is there not something very characteristic of his nation in Fourier's manner of putting forth his views? He makes no claim to inspiration. He has not ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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