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The conception and description of a fictional world, often as the setting of a work of fiction, particularly in speculative fiction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing
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Scientific research into the creation of the Earth and its geological features.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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The world of imagination of novelists, poets, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
աշխարհկառուցում
(ašxarhkaṙucʻum)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Bulgarian:
светоизграждане
(svetoizgraždane)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Czech:
světotvorba
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Esperanto:
konstruo de la mondo
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Esperanto:
mirostrojeno
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Finnish:
maailmanrakennus
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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French:
cosmopoésie
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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French:
worldbuilding
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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German:
Weltenbau
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Kazakh:
миростроение
(mirostroenie)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Korean:
세계 설정
(segye seoljeong)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Kyrgyz:
миростроение
(mirostroyeniye)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Polish:
światotwórstwo
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Russian:
мирострои́тельство
(mirostroítelʹstvo)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Russian:
мирострое́ние
(mirostrojénije)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Russian:
построение мира
(postrojenije mira)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Russian:
создание мира
(sozdanije mira)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Scots:
warldbiggin
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Tagalog:
paggawa ng daigdig
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Ukrainian:
світотворення
(svitotvorennja)
— act or process of building of a fictional world
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Uzbek:
mirastroeniе
— act or process of building of a fictional world
