The world

it

• Pron

  1. The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
  2. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender.
  3. (obsolete) An affectionate third-person singular personal pronoun.
  4. A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or non-binary.
  5. Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
  6. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).
  7. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
  8. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
  9. The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.
  10. Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance.
  11. The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
  12. All or the end; something after which there is no more.
  13. (obsolete) Followed by an omitted and understood relative pronoun: That which; what.

• Det
• Noun
• Adj

was

1. first-person singular simple past indicative of be.
2. third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
3. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
4. second-person singular simple past indicative of be; were.
5. (colloquial) first-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.
6. (colloquial) third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.

modernized

simple past and past participle of modernize

during

• Prep

  1. For all of a given time interval.
  2. At any time or period within a given time interval.

• Verb

the

• Article

  1. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  2. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  3. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  4. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  5. (colloquial) Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  6. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  7. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  8. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  9. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  10. Used before a noun phrase, including a simple noun
  11. Used with an adjective
  12. Used with an adjective
  13. Used with an adjective

• Adv
• Prep
• Pron
• Noun

First World War

World War I.

First

A surname.

world

• 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