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English adjective: world | |||
| 1. | world involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | ||
| Samples | Global war. Global monetary policy. Neither national nor continental but planetary. A world crisis. Of worldwide significance. | ||
| Synonyms | global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide | ||
| Similar | international | ||
| Antonyms | national | ||
English noun: world | |||
| 1. | world (object) everything that exists anywhere | ||
| Samples | They study the evolution of the universe. The biggest tree in existence. | ||
| Synonyms | cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | natural object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | closed universe, natural order, nature | ||
| Part holonym | celestial body, estraterrestrial body, extraterrestrial object, heavenly body | ||
| Member holonym | extragalactic nebula, galaxy | ||
| 2. | world (group) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | ||
| Samples | The Western world. | ||
| Synonyms | domain | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | academe, academia, Grub Street | ||
| 3. | world (cognition) all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you | ||
| Samples | His world was shattered. We live in different worlds. For them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were. | ||
| Synonyms | reality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | experience | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | real life, real world | ||
| 4. | world (object) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | ||
| Samples | The Earth moves around the sun. He sailed around the world. | ||
| Synonyms | Earth, globe | ||
| Instance hypernym | terrestrial planet | ||
| Part holonym | air, atmosphere, dry land, earth, geosphere, ground, hemisphere, hydrosphere, land, lithosphere, sky, solid ground, terra firma, Van Allen belt | ||
| Member meronym | solar system | ||
| 5. | world (group) people in general considered as a whole | ||
| Samples | He is a hero in the eyes of the public. | ||
| Synonyms | populace, public | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | people | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | admass | ||
| Member holonym | audience | ||
| 6. | world (object) a part of the earth that can be considered separately | ||
| Samples | The outdoor world. The world of insects. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | part, piece | ||
| 7. | world (cognition) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | ||
| Samples | They consider the church to be independent of the world. | ||
| Synonyms | earth, earthly concern, worldly concern | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | concern | ||
| 8. | world (animal) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | ||
| Samples | All the world loves a lover. She always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women. | ||
| Synonyms | human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | group, grouping, homo, human, human being, man | ||
| Member holonym | people | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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