world

Значение (Английский)

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.

Произносится как (IPA)

/wɜːld/

Этимология (Английский)

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”).

Предложения

He became the first Frenchman to win the World Championship .

Он стал первым французом, выигравшим чемпионат мира.

It was modernized during the First World War .

Он был модернизирован во время Первой мировой войны.

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

Это человек, который понимает природу и мир.

It's such an unfair world , innit ?

Это такой несправедливый мир, Innit?

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

Одна четверть всех наград за первую мировую войну была посмертной.

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

Пост-второй период мировой войны был золотой эрой для футбольного клуба Данди.

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

Этот центр создан для этнологического картирования мира с помощью устаревших музыкальных инструментов.