world

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Meaning

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.

Concepts

world

earth

universe

society

public

cosmos

globe

creation

land

global

worldwide

existence

Earth

country

ground

people

life

macrocosm

general public

place

universal

age

nature

humanity

humankind

sphere

worldliness

generation

having one’s own way

ruling power

whole country

realm

human race

human beings

mankind

populace

soil

international community

company

common people

path of life

heaven and earth

division of the universe

region

planetary

humans

man

earthly concern

worldly concern

reality

domain

kingdom

speech

talk

territory

world-wide

being

spirit

home

skies

whole creation

Mother Earth

international society

times

common customs

popular

vulgar

customs

laity

manners

mundane things

vulgarity

earthly affairs

descent from heaven

top and bottom

around town

on the street

as in

mundane existence

worldly life

mundance existence

secular life

mondial

career

eatch

good things of life

material possessions

soil dug out to form a grave

steep

territory of a chief

era

space

time

promise

the earth

capital city

persons

everything

association

earthly life

the universe

face of the earth

area

on the earth

air

grave

moss

works

human life

living place

planet

Blue Planet

sky

community

body

class

crowd

family

folk

person

Universe

samsara

international

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɜːld/

Etymology

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”).