world
adjective
1. involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
- a world crisis
- of worldwide significance
Similar word(s): international, global, planetary, worldwide
noun
1. everything that exists anywhere
Similar word(s): cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe
Definition categories: object
2. people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
- the Western world
Similar word(s): domain
Definition categories: group, class, stratum
3. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
- his world was shattered
- we live in different worlds
Similar word(s): reality
Definition categories: thought, experience
4. the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
- he sailed around the world
Definition categories: object
5. people in general considered as a whole
Similar word(s): populace, public
Definition categories: group, people
6. a part of the earth that can be considered separately
- the outdoor world
- the world of insects
Definition categories: object, part, piece
7. the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- they consider the church to be independent of the world
Similar word(s): earth
Definition categories: thought, concern
8. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- all the world loves a lover
Similar word(s): humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind
Definition categories: animal, group, grouping, human, man
Sentences with world as a noun:
- There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.
- People are dying of starvation all over the world.
- Our mission is to travel the galaxy and find new worlds.
- In the world of boxing, good diet is all-important.
- a world of difference; a world of trouble; a world of embarrassment
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.