world

Betekenis

Noun

1. The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
2. The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
3. A majority of people.
4. The Universe.
5. The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
6. Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
7. (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
8. A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
9. A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
10. A very large extent of country.
11. In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
12. A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
13. An individual or group perspective or social setting.
14. The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
15. A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
16. The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
17. (informal) A great amount, a lot.
18. Age, era.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To make real; to make worldly.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/wɜːld/

Etymologie

From Middle English world, weoreld, 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”).
Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”).

Zinnen

He became the first Frenchman to win the World Championship .

Hij werd de eerste Fransman die het wereldkampioenschap won.

It was modernized during the First World War .

Het werd gemoderniseerd tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

It's a man who understands nature and the world .

Het is een man die de natuur en de wereld begrijpt.

It's such an unfair world , innit ?

Het is zo'n oneerlijke wereld, innit?

One quarter of all awards for the First World War were posthumous .

Een kwart van alle prijzen voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog waren postume.

The post-Second World War period was a golden era for Dundee Football Club .

De periode na een seconde Wereldoorlog was een gouden tijdperk voor Dundee Football Club.

This centre is created for ethnological mapping of the world through obsolescent musical instruments .

Dit centrum is gemaakt voor etnologische mapping van de wereld door verouderde muziekinstrumenten.