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Added 5 October 2026

world

/wɜːld/ noun

In Latin: mundus Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about world at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.
The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.
A majority of people.
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.

verb

To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.
To make real; to make worldly.

Origin

From Middle English world, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”).

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