- The cosmos is the universe, often not in the sense in which modern physicists use the word, but rather, thought of by philosophers as encompassing all that exists, or by theologians as encompassing all of God's creation.
- In a narrower usage, the cosmos is the physical universe.
- Cosmos was the generic name given to a series of Earth-orbiting satellites by the Soviet Union. Most are suspected of being military reconnaissance satellites.
- Cosmos is a genus of flowering plants.
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was a thirteen-part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. The book that accompanied the series is simply called Cosmos.
- The New York Cosmos were a professional soccer club based in New York. Financial difficulties led to their disbanding in 1985. (This word is the plural of cosmo (for "cosmopolitan"), in contrast with the first word cosmos above, which is singular.)
- COSMOS is the journal of the Cosmos Club, a notable literary society in Washington, DC
See also Cosmo
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