world record

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   the best record in the whole world

   Broaderrecord

Questions about world record

What does world record mean?

world record means "the best record in the whole world".

Is world record a common word?

world record is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.