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say it: wurld
world is a noun and adjective meaning "everything that exists anywhere". It is pronounced /ˈwɝld/ — wurld. It carries 9 recorded senses.
everything that exists anywhere
“they study the evolution of the universe”
“the biggest tree in existence”
people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
“the Western world”
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”
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
“the Earth moves around the sun”
“he sailed around the world”
a part of the earth that can be considered separately
“the outdoor world”
“the world of insects”
the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
“they consider the church to be independent of the world”
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for world come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.