world

Meanings

Noun

• The subjective human experience, regarded collectively. Human collective existence; existence in general.
• The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
• A majority of people.
• The Universe.
• The Earth.
• A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
• A very large extent of country.
• A realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple society of being, especially intelligent ones.
• An individual or group perspective or social setting.
• The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
• A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
• The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
• A great amount.
• Age, era.

Verb

• 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.
• To make real; to make worldly.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• First World
• Fourth World
• free world
• Majority World
• New World
• Old World
• post-Cold War world
• Second World
• Third World
• umbworld
• underworld

Origin

• From Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English weorold, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz, equivalent to . Cognate with Scots warld, Saterland Frisian Waareld, West Frisian wrâld,
• Afrikaans wêreld, Dutch wereld, Low German Werld, German Welt, Norwegian Bokmål verden, Norwegian Nynorsk verd, Swedish värld, Icelandic veröld.