Meaning & Definition of World in English

1. Everything that exists anywhere

• "They study the evolution of the universe"

• "The biggest tree in existence"

2. People in general

• Especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest

• "The western world"

3. 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"

4. The 3rd planet from the sun

• The planet we live on

• "The earth moves around the sun"

• "He sailed around the world"

5. People in general considered as a whole

• "He is a hero in the eyes of the public"

6. A part of the earth that can be considered separately

• "The outdoor world"

• "The world of insects"

7. The concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife

• "They consider the church to be independent of the world"

8. 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"

1. 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"