world

Meaning

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. (metonymically, with-definite-article) A majority of people.
4. The Universe.
5. (with-definite-article) 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. (countable) (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
8. (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
9. (broadly, countable) 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. (archaic) Age, era.

Verb

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (transitive) To make real; to make worldly.

Synonyms

earth

universe

society

public

cosmos

globe

creation

land

global

worldwide

Earth

existence

country

ground

life

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

macrocosm

general public

nature

universal

place

humankind

humanity

age

human beings

whole country

generation

worldliness

mankind

soil

sphere

realm

populace

human race

ruling power

having one’s own way

heaven and earth

territory

talk

🗣️

path of life

company

region

speech

man

👨

being

common people

kingdom

international community

humans

domain

Translations

monde

🗺️

mundo

🗺️

Welt

🗺️

mondo

🗺️

mundo

🗺️

wereld

🗺️

κόσμος

عالم

🗺️

món

mundus

dünya

🗺️

mundial

mondial

Erde

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɜːld/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: world

Inherited from Old English: weorold

Cognate with Scots: warld

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Waareld

Cognate with Western Frisian: wrâld

Cognate with Afrikaans: wêreld

Cognate with Dutch: wereld

Cognate with Low German: Werld

Cognate with German: Welt

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: verden

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: verd

Cognate with Swedish: värld

Cognate with Icelandic: veröld

In summary

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”).

Sentences

It was the pure Language of the World .

The more people that can participate in the web , the better the Internet , and the world will be .

" And you ought to read more about the world ," answered the Englishman .

He became the first Frenchman to win the World Championship .

It was modernized during the First World War .

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