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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Earth: the Earth (our earth).
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
The Universe: our universe.
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Existence.
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
The Third World (the third world).
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
The First World (the first world).
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
The Second World (the second world).
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
The Fourth World (the fourth world).
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
The Industrialized World (the industrialized world).
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
The Developed World (the developed world).
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name
The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
The Developing World (the developing world).
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noun
The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun
Synonyms: World
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noun
The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
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Qualifier: with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun
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noun
A majority of people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: metonymically, with-definite-article
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noun
The Universe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: with-definite-article
Synonyms: the earth, Earth, the globe, God's green earth, Sol III, the planet
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noun
Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
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noun
(Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A distinct realm, capable of containing objects or inhabitants, which does not physically border other similar realms.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A distinct realm, capable of containing objects or inhabitants, which does not physically border other similar realms.
A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A distinct realm, capable of containing objects or inhabitants, which does not physically border other similar realms.
A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
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Usage: broadly, countable
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noun
A distinct realm, capable of containing objects or inhabitants, which does not physically border other similar realms.
In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A distinct realm, capable of containing objects or inhabitants, which does not physically border other similar realms.
A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A very large extent of country.
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noun
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: circle
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noun
The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences, tarot
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noun
A great amount, a lot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Age, era.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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verb
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To make real; to make worldly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: group, grouping, homo, man, human being, human
noun
the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: worldly concern, earthly concern, earth
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Broader terms: concern
noun
all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: reality
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Broader terms: experience
Narrower terms: real world, real life
noun
people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: domain
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
Narrower terms: academia, academe, Grub Street
noun
people in general considered as a whole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: populace, public
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Broader terms: people
Narrower terms: admass
noun
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: Earth, globe
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Broader terms: terrestrial planet
noun
everything that exists anywhere
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: universe, existence, creation, cosmos, macrocosm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: natural object
Narrower terms: closed universe, natural order, nature
noun
a part of the earth that can be considered separately
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: part, piece
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh1-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h2el- Proto-Indo-European *h2életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world From Middle English world, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”). Cognates Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), North Frisian Wārel, wäält, wråål (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Bavarian Wöd (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), German, Luxembourgish Welt (“world”), German Low German Wereld, Werld (“world”), Vilamovian wełt (“world”), Yiddish וועלט (velt, “world”), Danish verden (“world”), Elfdalian wärd (“world”), Faroese verð, verøld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”), Norn vrildan (“the earth”), Norwegian Bokmål verd, verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”).
Across languages
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