Definition of microcosm:
		
            
            
              
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Though our town is small and provincial, it is a true microcosm to the country as a whole."
              
              °(archaic) a small, complete world.
            
            
            
              
                "1608: If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? -- 
Shakespeare, 
, ii 1"
              
 
 
		
		
		Definition of microcosm:
		
            
            
              
                "
Though our town is small and provincial, it is a true microcosm to the country as a whole."
              
              °(archaic) a small, complete world.
            
            
            
              
                "1608: If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? -- 
Shakespeare, 
, ii 1"