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world

Dictionary definition · world

noun

  1. everything that exists anywhere"they study the evolution of the universe"
  2. people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest"the Western world"
  3. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you"his world was shattered"
  4. the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on"the Earth moves around the sun"
  5. people in general considered as a whole"he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
  6. a part of the earth that can be considered separately"the outdoor world"
  7. the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife"they consider the church to be independent of the world"
  8. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth"all the world loves a lover"

adjective

  1. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope"global war"

Similar words

globalplanetaryworld-wideworldwidecosmoscreationexistencemacrocosmuniversedomain

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).