world
IPA: wˈɝɫd
noun
- (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.
- (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
- (metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.
- The Universe.
- (uncountable, with "the") The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context.
- (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
- (by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
- A very large extent of country.
- In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
- A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
- An individual or group perspective or social setting.
- (computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
- (video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
- (tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
- (informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.
- (archaic) Age, era.
- 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).
- The Universe: our universe.
- Existence.
- 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).
- The First World (the first world).
- The Second World (the second world).
- The Fourth World (the fourth world).
- The Industrialized World (the industrialized world).
- The Developed World (the developed world).
- The Developing World (the developing world).
verb
- To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
- To make real; to make worldly.
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Examples of "world" in Sentences
- Christ: by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world_.
- It is a test to \'live in the world but not of the world\ 'as Jesus put it.
- [Illustration: _It was a beautiful white world, a very beautiful white world_]
- In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world_.
- We may distinguish between the world-in-itself and the ˜world™ of our perceptual and related experiences (the phenomenal world).
- Similarly, the world of physical phenomena which was briefly called world by Minkowski is naturally four-dimensional in the space-time sense.
- It was not a singing river, but to-day it seemed to have a song, "_Go back, go back_," it said; "_you have seen the world, you have seen the world_."
- And the idea that you can't set up a controlled experiment in an open-ended virtual world is curious -- scientists do this all the time, setting up controlled experiments in *the real world*.
- Not a human being but ourselves for miles; and no sound heard but the pulsations of the great Pacific! and the great steep hill rising like a wall, and cutting us off from all the world, but the world of waters!
- It is the principal idea which penetrates all our reasoning about the relation of God and the world -- namely, the idea of a _teleology in the world_ -- which is to lead us to a correct conception of the _miracles_ and their reconcilableness with a mechanism of nature and with the Darwinistic ideas of development.
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