Ubiquitous Definition
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English
Etymology
From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) < ubi (“where”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ubiquitous (not comparable)
- Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
- To Hindus and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
- Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
Quotations
- 1851 — Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 41
- One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
- 1927-1929 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V (XII) The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.
Synonyms
- (being everywhere): omnipresent
- (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time): ever-present
Derived terms
Related terms
External links
- ubiquitous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ubiquitous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ubiquitous at OneLook Dictionary Search
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