world

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɜːld/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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”).

Frases

He became the first Frenchman to win the World Championship .

Ele se tornou o primeiro francês a vencer o campeonato mundial.

It was modernized during the First World War .

Foi modernizado durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial.

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

É um homem que entende a natureza e o mundo.

It's such an unfair world , innit ?

É um mundo tão injusto, não é?

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

Um quarto de todos os prêmios para a Primeira Guerra Mundial foi póstumo.

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

O período pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial foi uma era de ouro para o Dundee Football Club.

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

Este centro é criado para o mapeamento etnológico do mundo por meio de instrumentos musicais obsoletais.