universal
IPA: junʌvˈɝsʌɫ
noun
- (philosophy) A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the universe.
- Common to all members of a group or class.
- Common to all society; worldwide.
- Unlimited; vast; infinite.
- Useful for many purposes; all-purpose.
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Examples of "universal" in Sentences
- These assertions are universal: I say, in the full sense, _universal_.
- There are many different types of care which fall under the term universal health care
- These three levels are: the materialistic consciousness, the spiritual consciousness and what I call the "universal consciousness."
- I trust we may come to that unity of mankind of which he speaks, and of universal peace which our friend Richard Cobden considers as very near at hand; if, however, the red benefactors of mankind at Paris get the upper hand, _universal war_ will be the order of the day.
- But if this education were universal to the whole tribe, no man would have an advantage superior to the others; the knowledge they would have acquired being shared by all, would leave all as they now are, hewers of wood and drawers of water: the principle of individual hope, which springs from knowledge, would soon be baffled by the vast competition that _universal_ knowledge would produce.
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