world

Adjective

• 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
    

Noun

• 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
    

• the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
  • they consider the church to be independent of the world
    

• a part of the earth that can be considered separately
  • the outdoor world
    
  • the world of insects
    

• people in general considered as a whole
  • he is a hero in the eyes of the public
    

• the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
  • the Earth moves around the sun
    
  • he sailed around the 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
    

• people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
  • the Western world
    

• everything that exists anywhere
  • they study the evolution of the universe
    
  • the biggest tree in existence
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  global , planetary , world(a) , worldwide , world-wide , human race , humanity , humankind , human beings , humans , mankind , man , worldly concern , earthly concern , earth , populace , public , Earth , globe , reality , domain , universe , existence , creation , cosmos , macrocosm