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World

noun

1.

Everything that exists anywhere. Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe. "The biggest tree in existence"

2.

People in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest. Synonym: domain.

3.

All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you. Synonym: reality. "We live in different worlds" , "For them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"

4.

The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on. Synonyms: Earth, globe. "He sailed around the world"

5.

People in general considered as a whole. Synonyms: populace, public.

6.

A part of the earth that can be considered separately. "The world of insects"

7.

The concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife. Synonyms: earth, earthly concern, worldly concern.

8.

All of the living human inhabitants of the earth. Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind. "She always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women"

adjective

1.

Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope. Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide. "Global monetary policy" , "Neither national nor continental but planetary" , "A world crisis" , "Of worldwide significance"

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"World" Quotes from Famous Books

... at their feet, in some village across the road; and the other far-off and faint, responding, as it were, with distant sobs to the feverish plaints of the first. One might have thought that these bells were recounting to each other, through the empty waste, the sinister story of a perishing world. ...

— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola

... when he had come to the matter of saint Edward's altar; it was such an exterior silence as is the interior silence that came to him in contemplation. There appeared no movement anywhere, neither in the room, nor the palace, nor the world, nor in the three hearts that were beating there. There was only the great presence ...

— The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary • Robert Hugh Benson

... Edith!" said Evandale, perplexed in the utmost degree, "you let your imagination beguile you; this is but some delusion of an over-sensitive mind. The person whom you preferred to me has been long in a better world, where your unavailing regret cannot follow him, or, if it could, would only ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... home-lessons and sighed deeply. 'My money-box is quite empty,' he remarked, 'and Nellie and Hilda have not a farthing in the world.' ...

— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

... the belief of the ancient Peruvians that the soul leaves the body during sleep, and that the soul itself cannot sleep, but that dreams are what the soul sees in the world while the body sleeps. Waitz says they believed in the transmigration of human souls into the bodies ...

— The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul - The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies - in Psychology • Jirah D. Buck

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