1. Everything that exists anywhere
   "they study the evolution of the world";
   - universe, existence, creation, cosmos, macrocosm
    
2. The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
   "he sailed around the world";
   - Earth, earth, globe
    
3. People in general considered as a whole
   "he is a hero in the eyes of the world";
   - populace, public
    
4. People in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
   "the Western world";
   - domain
    
5. A part of the earth that can be considered separately
   "the outdoor world"; "the world of insects"
    
6. All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
   "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds";
   - reality
    
7. All of the living human inhabitants of the earth
   "all the world loves a lover";
   - human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man
    
8. The concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
   "they consider the church to be independent of the world";
   - worldly concern, earthly concern, earth

1. Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
   "a world crisis"; "world-wide war";
   - global, planetary, worldwide, world-wide

Sounds like: word, wh, world, whirled, w

Derived forms: worlds

See also: international

Type of: class, concern, experience, group, grouping, homo, human, human being, man, natural object, part, people, piece, social class, socio-economic class, stratum, terrestrial planet

Part of: solar system

Encyclopedia: World, flesh, & devil