American English pronunciation
How to pronounce world
IPA transcription: ['wɚld]
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Noun
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the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
“the Earth moves around the sun”
“he sailed around the world”
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everything that exists anywhere
“they study the evolution of the universe”
“the biggest tree in existence”
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people in general considered as a whole
“he is a hero in the eyes of the public”
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all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
“his world was shattered”
“we live in different worlds”
“for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were”
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people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
“the Western world”
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a part of the earth that can be considered separately
“the outdoor world”
“the world of insects”
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the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
“they consider the church to be independent of the world”
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all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
“all the world loves a lover”
“she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women”
Adjective
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involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
“global war”
“global monetary policy”
“neither national nor continental but planetary”
“a world crisis”
“of worldwide significance”
Usage examples
- He later decided to enter the world of boxing.
- Please look up the Around the World in Eighty Days movie.
- Only two are recognized by the World Checklist.
- It is considered to have been the world's first dual carriageway.
- He was more confident in himself, though, and felt as though he could conquer the world.
- He was more certain of it than of anything in the world.
- They had, more often than not, come up from a barbarous underworld.
- The Anheuser-Busch Company made an offer to purchase the SeaWorld parks.
- It may have been the first underground radio station in the world.
- "Never to come on a green twig;" not to get on in the world.