Meaning of world | Babel Free

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1. world, earth (human collective existence)
2. The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
3. The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:
4. Earth: the Earth (our earth).
5. world, globe (the Earth)
6. In all respects; precisely: She looked for all the world like a movie star.
7. The Universe: our universe.
8. The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
9. world (planet, especially one which is inhabitable)
10. Used as an intensive: How in the world did they manage? I never in the world would have guessed.
11. Existence.
12. A majority of people.
    metonymically, with-definite-article
13. world (an individual or group perspective or social setting)
14. Extraordinary; superb: The dinner was out of this world.
15. Any of the (conceptually figurative) worlds that constitute (or have formerly been asserted to constitute) the world, as for example:
16. The Third World (the third world).
17. The Universe.
18. hopscotch
19. Throughout the world: known the world over.
20. The First World (the first world).
21. The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
    with-definite-article
22. Forever.
23. The Second World (the second world).
24. Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
25. of or belonging to this world; not spiritual. worldly pleasures. wêrelds, aards من هذا العالَم، دُنْيَوي، أرْضي земен mundano světský weltlich verdslig; jordisk εγκόσμιοςmundano maine دنیایی، نفساین maallinen de ce monde, terrestreארצי, גשמי पार्थीव svjetski, svjetovan világi(as) duniawi veraldlegur terreno 世俗的な 세속의 pasaulio, pasaulietiškas, žemiškas pasaulīgs; laicīgs; zemes- keduniaan; duniawi wereldlijk, wereldsverdslig, jordiskdoczesny, ziemski دنيوي، ددنيا، مادې غيرروحاني: پردنيا مين: دد...
26. The Fourth World (the fourth world).
27. (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
    countable
28. wêreldsheid حُب الدُّنْيَوِيّات материалност conhecimento da vida světáctví die Weltlichkeit verdslighed κοσμικότητα mundanería maisus دنیوی؛ پختگی maallisuus attachement aux biens de ce monde גַשמִיוּת सांसारिकता svjetovnost evilági jelleg; világiasság keduniawian veraldlegt hugarfar (condizione terrena) 世俗 세속적인 관심 pasaulietiškumas pasaulīgums; laicīgums keduniawian; penuh keduniaan wereldlijkheid, wereldsheid verdslighet światowość دنياوي چارې، دنيا خوښونه conhecimento da vida deşertăciune ...
29. The Industrialized World (the industrialized world).
30. A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
    countable
31. (extending over or found) everywhere in the world. a worldwide sales network; Their products are sold worldwide. wêreldwyd على نِطاق عالَمي разпространен по целия свят mundial(mente) weltweit over hele verden παγκόσμιος, παγκοσμίωςmundial, mundialmente, universal, universalmente ülemaailmne, ülemaailmselt جهنی؛ در سراسر جهان maailmanlaajuinen mondial; dans le monde entier עולמי po cijelom svijetu az egész világon elterjedt di seluruh dunia sem nær til alls heimsins mondiale; in tutto il mondo...
32. The Developed World (the developed world).
33. Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
    broadly, countable
34. the advantages of both the alternatives in a situation etc in which one can normally only expect to have one. A woman has the best of both worlds when she has a good job and a happy family life. beste van beide فائِدَة العالَمَيْن، فائِدَة المَوقِفَيْن най-доброто от две положения o melhor dos dois mundos to lepší ze dvou možností das Beste von beiden Seiten få både i pose og sæk και την πίτα ολόκληρη και το σκύλο χορτάτο tener todas las ventajas, beneficiarse por partida doble mõlematpidi pa...
    etc
35. The Developing World (the developing world).
36. A very large extent of country.
37. exactly, quite etc. What a mess you're in! You look for all the world as if you'd had an argument with an express train. presies بالضَّبْط، تَماما точно exatamente úplně, přesně in jeder Hinsicht fuldkommen ακριβώς, εντελώςexactamente just از هر جهت؛ به هیچ وجه aivan kuin exactement בְּעַד כָּל הוֹן שֶבַּעוֹלָם ठीक točno, baš kao minden tekintetben tepat, serupa benar nákvæmlega esattamente まるで 꼭, 아주 taip, tarytum tieši tā; gluži kā betul-betul; benar-benar netakkurat somzupełnie هر جهت exact...
    etc
38. In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
39. A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
40. An individual or group perspective or social setting.
41. The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
42. A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
43. The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
44. A great amount, a lot.
    informal
45. Age, era.
    archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.”

“There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.”

“O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! / O brave new world, / That has such people in 't.”

“(Huxley is quoting William Shakespeare's play The Tempest in this novel's title)”

“So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.”

“The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.”

“He was my world! [said of a slain companion]”

“The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.”

“Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.”

“America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

“Running after God is the only life worth living. Even though the world believes that living for God is boring, we believe that there is nothing more exciting.”

“People are dying of starvation all over the world.”

““As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer and the harvest of autumn–the cycle of life is complete.” - quotation attributed to Irna Phillips.”

“Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.”

“Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.”

“She says the Third Pole is one of the world’s largest sources of fresh drinking water.”

“Who would want to live in a world like this?”

“the best of all possible worlds. In the French original: le meilleur des mondes possibles. In German: die beste aller möglichen Welten.”

“Our mission is to travel the galaxy and find new worlds.”

“A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour […] A time to sicken and to swoon, ⁠When Science reaches forth her arms ⁠To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon?’”

“And They said to Kib: “What are these things that move upon The Earth yet move not in circles like the Worlds, that regard like the Moon and yet they do not shine?””

“Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.”

“I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds.”

“the New World”

“Frey [...] clambered up on to the Hildskjalf, the throne from which Odin could see everything that happened across the nine worlds.”

“the world of Narnia”

“the Wizarding World of Harry Potter”

“a zombie world”

“In the world of boxing, good diet is all-important.”

“Welcome to my world.”

“According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.”

“Have you reached the boss at the end of the ice world?”

“There's a hidden warp to the next world down this pipe.”

“Taking a break from work seems to have done her a world of good.”

“You're going to be in a world of trouble when your family finds out.”

“That new wallpaper has made worlds of difference downstairs.”

“This movie isn't even billed as a comedy, but it's worlds funnier than the comedy I saw last month.”

“to think the world of someone”

“to mean the world to someone”

“Thy kingdom is a kingdom of al worldes: and thy domnion in al generation and generation.”

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