means Applying to all cases, members, or instances within a given group or context — true everywhere or for everyone.

from From Latin universalis, built on universus, 'whole, entire, turned into one' — from unus ('one') plus versus ('turned'), the past participle of vertere ('to turn'). So at its root it pictures the many things of the world all turned together into a single whole. It reached English through Old French in the medieval period, riding in on the back of scholarly Latin used in philosophy and theology.