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Another word for world

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Noun

  1. The celestial body where humans live

      1. The land surface of the world.
      2. The softer, friable part of land; soil, especially productive soil.
      3. The third planet from the sun, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 365.26 days at a mean distance of approximately 149.6 million kilometers (92.96 million miles), a sidereal rotation period of 23 hours 56.07 minutes, an average radius of 6,378.1 kilometers (3,963 miles), and a mass of approximately 5.9736 × 1024 kilograms (1.3169 × 1025 pounds).
    See also:

    place

  2. The totality of all existing things

      1. All space-time, matter, and energy, including the solar system, all stars and galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole.
      2. A hypothetical whole of space-time, matter, and energy that is purported to exist simultaneously with but to be different from this universe:
      3. A model or conception of the earth and everything else that exists:
      1. The material world and its phenomena:
      2. The forces and processes that produce and control these phenomena:
      3. The world of living things and the outdoors:
      1. The entire world; the universe.
      2. A system reflecting on a large scale one of its component systems or parts.
      1. The act of creating.
      2. The fact or state of having been created.
      3. The act of investing with a new office or title.
      1. The universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious whole.
      2. An ordered, harmonious whole.
      3. Harmony and order as distinct from chaos.
    See also:

    part

    matter

  3. The human race

      1. All space-time, matter, and energy, including the solar system, all stars and galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole.
      2. A hypothetical whole of space-time, matter, and energy that is purported to exist simultaneously with but to be different from this universe:
      3. A model or conception of the earth and everything else that exists:
      1. The human race; humankind.
      2. Men as opposed to women.
      1. An adult male human.
      2. A human regardless of sex or age; a person.
      3. A human or an adult male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination:
      1. Humans considered as a group; the human race.
      2. The condition or quality of being human.
      3. The quality of being humane; benevolence.
      1. The modern species of humans, the only extant species of the primate tribe Hominini.
      1. The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat:
      2. Such tissue of an animal, used as food:
      3. The surface or skin of the human body:
      1. The land surface of the world.
      2. The softer, friable part of land; soil, especially productive soil.
      3. The third planet from the sun, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 365.26 days at a mean distance of approximately 149.6 million kilometers (92.96 million miles), a sidereal rotation period of 23 hours 56.07 minutes, an average radius of 6,378.1 kilometers (3,963 miles), and a mass of approximately 5.9736 × 1024 kilograms (1.3169 × 1025 pounds).
    See also:

    culture

  4. A sphere of activity, experience, study, or interest

      1. A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.
      2. A handbag; a purse.
      3. A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.
      1. An area of land; a region.
      2. The land and waters under the jurisdiction of a government.
      3. A political subdivision of a country.
      1. An area of land; ground:
      2. A particular geographic area; a region:
      3. The surface features of an area of land; topography:
      1. Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of another or others:
      2. Prone; disposed:
      3. Likely to incur or receive; exposed:
      1. Something seen by a viewer; a view or prospect.
      2. The place where an action or event occurs:
      3. The place in which the action of a play, movie, novel, or other narrative occurs; a setting.
      1. A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.
      2. An area or sphere, as of knowledge or activity:
      1. A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.
      2. A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan.
      3. Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.
      1. The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body due to their mutual gravitational attraction.
      2. One complete revolution of such a body.
      3. The path of a body in a field of force surrounding another body; for example, the movement of an atomic electron in relation to a nucleus.
      1. A broad, level, open expanse of land.
      2. A meadow:
      3. A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop:
      1. A territory over which rule or control is exercised.
      2. A sphere of activity, influence, or knowledge:
      3. The set of all possible values of an independent variable of a function.
      1. A principal administrative division of a government:
      2. A division of a business specializing in a particular product or service:
      3. A division of a school or college dealing with a particular field of knowledge:
      1. A plane curve everywhere equidistant from a given fixed point, the center.
      2. A planar region bounded by a circle.
      3. Something, such as a ring, shaped like such a plane curve.
      1. A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority.
      2. The office or district of a bailiff.
      1. An enclosed area for the presentation of sports events and spectacles.
      2. A building housing such an area.
      3. A place or scene where forces contend or events unfold:
      1. A roughly bounded part of the space on a surface; a region:
      2. A surface, especially an open, unoccupied piece of ground:
      3. A distinct part or section, as of a building, set aside for a specific function:
    See also:

    territory

  5. The totality of surrounding conditions and circumstances affecting growth or development

      1. The external objects, conditions, and circumstances that affect existence and development; the environment.
      1. An environment or a setting.
      1. Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.
      2. An intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on.
      3. An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred:
      1. The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans:
      2. A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem:
      3. The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms:
      1. The meteorological conditions, including temperature, precipitation, and wind, that characteristically prevail in a particular region.
      2. A region of the earth having particular meteorological conditions:
      3. A prevailing condition or set of attitudes in human affairs:
      1. The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field.
      2. The air or climate in a specific place.
      3. A unit of pressure equal to the air pressure at sea level. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 millimeters high at 0 degrees Celsius under standard gravity, or 14.7 pounds per square inch (1.01325 × 105 pascals).
      1. The special atmosphere or mood created by a particular environment:
    See also:

    place

    limited

    be

  6. A great deal

      1. The ability to see.
      2. Field of vision:
      3. The act or fact of seeing:
      1. The ability or capacity to act or do something effectively:
      2. A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude:
      3. Physical strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted:
      1. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap.
      2. A large accumulation or quantity:
      3. A large amount of money:
      1. To strike with the beak or a pointed instrument.
      2. To make (a hole, for example) by striking repeatedly with the beak or a pointed instrument.
      3. To grasp and pick up with the beak:
      1. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.
      2. A container made to be carried on the body of a person or animal.
      3. The amount, as of food, that is processed and packaged at one time or in one season.
      1. A large extent, amount, or number:
      2. Used adverbially to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”:
      3. A number of associated people or things:
      1. A group of things placed or thrown, one on top of the other:
      2. A great deal; a lot:
      3. An old or run-down car.
      1. A large cylindrical container, usually made of staves bound together with hoops, with a flat top and bottom of equal diameter.
      2. The quantity that a barrel with a given or standard capacity will hold.
      3. Any of various units of volume or capacity. In the US Customary System it varies, as a liquid measure, from 31 to 42 gallons (117 to 159 liters) as established by law or usage.
      1. An abundance of valuable material possessions or resources; riches:
      2. The state of being rich; affluence:
      3. Goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use:
      1. The state of being profuse; abundance.
      2. Lavish or unrestrained expense; extravagance.
      3. A profuse outpouring or quantity:
      1. A full or completely adequate amount or supply:
      2. A large quantity or amount; an abundance:
      3. A condition of general abundance or prosperity:
      1. Great in quantity, degree, or extent:
      2. A large quantity or amount:
      3. Something great or remarkable:
      1. A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, and a height greater than that of a hill.
      2. A large heap:
      3. A huge quantity:
      1. A unified body of matter with no specific shape:
      2. A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity:
      3. A large but nonspecific amount or number:
      1. A great or plentiful amount:
      2. The condition of being in rich supply:
      3. Degree of plentifulness:
    See also:

    big

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Another word for world

Noun

  1. The earth

    See also:

    planet

    earth

  2. The universe

    See also:

    universe

  3. A specific group

      1. An organism as a whole, especially with regard to its vital processes or functions:
      2. A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts:
      3. A group of interacting mechanical or electrical components:
      1. The act or process of dividing.
      2. The state of having been divided.
      3. The operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in another; the inverse of multiplication.
      1. A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.
      2. An area or sphere, as of knowledge or activity:
    See also:

    class

  4. All one's surroundings

      1. The act or process of idealizing.
      2. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
      1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
      2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection:
      3. All that a person can remember:
      1. The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
      2. The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
      3. Living organisms considered as a group:
      1. The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind:
      2. Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill:
      3. The knowledge or skill so derived.
      1. The time of life when one is expected to take responsibility for one's own actions and well-being.
      1. The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to adulthood.
      2. A similar period in nonhuman animals, ending at sexual maturity.
      3. A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase:
      1. The time or state of being a child.
      2. The early stage in the existence or development of something:
      1. The special atmosphere or mood created by a particular environment:
      1. The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field.
      2. The air or climate in a specific place.
      3. A unit of pressure equal to the air pressure at sea level. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 millimeters high at 0 degrees Celsius under standard gravity, or 14.7 pounds per square inch (1.01325 × 105 pascals).
      1. The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans:
      2. A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem:
      3. The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms:

  5. Nonreligious affairs

Idioms:

    bring into the world

    2. for-all-the-world

    3. for-all-the-world

  3. for everything and anything, no matter, what, regardless;

      • in-the-world

      • on-top-of-the-world

      • out-of-this-world

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    • There's a world of good you could perform.

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    • Betsy and I claimed world class ability while Quinn just rolled his eyes.

    • You can know everything in the world and still make bad decisions.

    • He loved Molly and she thinks the world of him.

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