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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

... temple of Diana at Ephesus; this building was accounted one of the Seven Wonders of the World. ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 • Various

... Christ, as the Law did the Jewish. The wisdom of the world in their efforts to give truth and happiness to the human soul, was foolishness with God, and the wisdom of God—Christ crucified—was foolishness with the philosophers, in relation to the same subject; yet ...

— Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker • Meletios Golden

... shortly before his disgrace, invited me to pass some days with him in the country, and to assist him in arranging his very valuable collection of pictures—next our public ones, the most curious and most valuable in Europe, and, of course, in the world. I found here, as at Joseph Bonaparte's, the same splendour, the same etiquette, and the same liberty, which latter was much enhanced by the really engaging and unassuming manners and conversation of the host. At Joseph's, even in the midst of abundance and of liberty, in seeing the person or meditating ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... from the longest accurate record, and thus the most trustworthy data the world affords; and when one hears promulgated the very pleasing doctrine that the rotation of crops will maintain the fertility of the soil it is time to remember that "to err ...

— The Farm That Won't Wear Out • Cyril G. Hopkins

... designs on Middleton appear natural and probable. It may be, that Middleton has learned Eldredge's previous character through some Italian patriot who had taken refuge in America, and there become intimate with him; and it should be a piece of secret history, not known to the world in general, so that Middleton might seem to Eldredge the sole depositary of the secret then in England. He feels a necessity of getting rid of him; and thenceforth Middleton's path lies always among pitfalls; indeed, the first attempt should follow promptly ...

— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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