Noun

The colonial domination policy pursued by the powers of Europe, from the second half of the XIX century to the years following World War II. A colonial system.

A colonial linguistic expression. Term or expression of colonial origin entered in a language.

Colonial life.

Noun

(en noun)

(philosophy) The world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability.

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, year=1895 , date=October , last=James , first=William , authorlink=William James , title=Is Life Worth Living? , magazine=International Journal of Ethics citation , passage=Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse , as one might call it, and not a universe. , page=10 }}

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, year=1953 , authorlink=Saul Bellow , title= , last=Bellow , first=Saul , chapter=6 , publisher=Viking Press , passage=I've never gone through a place like Racine without thinking which house with the rubber-tire swing for kids and piano-practicing inside was like Stiva Lausch's, who had two daughters brought up with every refinement, including piano lessons, and how such little-speaking Odessa-bred sons had gotten on a track like this through the multiverse .}}

(physics, cosmology) The hypothetical group of all the possible universes in existence.

Our universe is a very small part of the multiverse .