Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Universe

Universe , noun

[Latin universum, from universus universal; unus one + vertere, versum, to turn, that is, turned into one, combined into one whole; compare French univers. See One, and Verse.]

All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the to~ pa^n of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.
How may I Adore thee, Author of this universe And all this good to man! — Milton