Definitions of world

  18. The earth and its inhabitants: the system of things: present state of existence: any planet or heavenly body: public life or society: business: the public: a secular life: course of life: a very large extent of country, as the " new world:" very much or a great deal, as a " world of good:" time, as in the phrase " world without end"- eternally: possibility, as in " nothing in the world:" ( B.) the ungodly.
  19. The earth; mankind; society; present state of things: any planet.
  20. The earth; any planet.
  21. A division of things; department; sphere.
  22. Mankind; the public.
  23. The practises and ways of men.
  24. Secular affairs; worldly pleasures.
  25. The earth and its inhabitants; the terraqueous globe; a division of it; any similar globe similarly regarded; any similar system of things; any region viewed as inhabited; any state of human existence; present state of existence; a secular life; the attractions, enjoyments, and cares of the present life; those engrossed with such things; public life or society; the public; business or trouble of life; a great multitude or quantity; mankind; people in general; course of life, as to begin the world; universal empire; all the world contains; the customs and manners of men; the practice of life; the principal nations or countries of the earth; the Roman empire; a large tract of country; a wide compass of things; the inhabitants of the earth; the human race; the carnal state or corruption of the earth; the ungodly part of the world; time, as world without end. In the world, in possibility. For all the world, exactly; entirely.
  26. The globe or planet on which we live; the universe; the earth; the present state of existence; the enjoyments and cares of the present life; course of life; customs and practices of men; people in general; in Scrip. sometimes, the Roman empire; a large and definite tract of country; the whole human race; the ungodly; very much or a great deal, as, a " world of good"; time, as, " world without end".

Usage examples for world

  1. But he wouldn't go for the world. – Love and Lucy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  2. You do not understand the world. – Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
  3. And be sure he would have told you what I tell you now, that all is well with all in the world. – The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington
  4. Year in, year out, all over the world, gold is worth the same. – The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  5. There were no friends for him in the world like the Maurices. – The Martian by George Du Maurier
  6. Well, I know what all the world knows. – Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  7. But I have got to make my way in the world, and I've no time. – Love Eternal by H. Rider Haggard
  8. Who are you, and where in the world do you come from? – Paddy Finn by W. H. G. Kingston
  9. Of all places in the world why should Mr Brandon go there? – The Late Mrs. Null by Frank Richard Stockton
  10. It is easy enough to forget the world. – Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  11. What have they done to the world? – Operation Terror by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  12. There is nothing like it in all the world. – Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston
  13. " No." " Work, I suppose," said the girl; " the work that you love better than anything in the world." – The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  14. " Makes all the difference in the world. – Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon
  15. To this we may answer: Does the world get along so very well, after all? – An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
  16. He might have done something in the world. – The Slave Of The Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman
  17. There is hardly anything in the world which Godfrey will not find out if he is given time. – The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham
  18. Can you think of nothing in the world but boots? – A Chair on The Boulevard by Leonard Merrick
  19. My world wouldn't have you, and your world wouldn't have me.... – Youth Challenges by Clarence B Kelland
  20. Were there really such things left in the world? – A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack