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world
noun
1 world
Everything that exists anywhere.
synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe.
Roget 180:
space,
extension,
extent,
superficial extent,
expanse,
stretch,
hyperspace;
room,
scope,
range,
field,
way,
expansion,
compass,
sweep,
swing,
spread.
dimension,
length
etc.
200;
distance
etc.
196;
size
etc.
192;
volume;
hypervolume.
latitude,
play,
leeway,
purchase,
tolerance,
room for maneuver.
spare room,
elbow room,
house room;
stowage,
roomage†,
margin;
opening,
sphere,
arena.
open space,
free space;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
waste;
wildness,
wilderness;
moor,
moorland;
campagna†.
abyss
etc.
(interval)
198;
unlimited space;
infinity
etc.
105;
world;
ubiquity
etc.
(presence)
186;
length and breadth of the land.
proportions,
acreage;
acres,
acres and perches,
roods and perches,
hectares,
square miles;
square inches,
square yards,
square centimeters,
square meters,
yards
(clothing)
&c.;
ares,
arpents†.
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Roget 852:
fashion,
style,
ton,
bon ton†,
society;
good society,
polite society;
monde [Fr.];
drawing-room,
civilized life,
civilization,
town,
beau monde [Fr.],
high life,
court;
world;
fashionable world,
gay world;
Vanity Fair;
show
etc.
(ostentation)
822.
manners,
breeding
etc.
(politeness)
894;
air,
demeanor
etc.
(appearance)
448;
savoir faire [Fr.];
gentlemanliness†,
gentility,
decorum,
propriety,
biens_eance [Fr.];
conventions of society;
Mrs.
Grundy;
punctilio;
form,
formality;
etiquette,
point of etiquette;
dress
etc.
225.
custom
etc.
613;
mode,
vogue,
go;
rage
etc.
(desire)
865;
prevailing taste;
fad,
trend,
bandwagon,
furore†,
thing,
in thing,
craze,
chic,
last word.
man of fashion,
woman of fashion,
man of the world,
woman of the world;
height of fashion,
pink of fashion,
star of fashion,
glass of fashion,
leader of fashion;
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.]
etc.
(taste)
850;
the beautiful people,
the fashion set,
upper ten thousand
etc.
(nobility)
875;
elite
etc.
(distinction)
873;
smart set;
the four hundred [U.S.];
in crowd.
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Roget 318:
world,
creation,
nature,
universe;
earth,
globe,
wide world;
cosmos;
kosmos†;
terraqueous globe†,
sphere;
macrocosm,
megacosm†;
music of the spheres.
heavens,
sky,
welkin†,
empyrean;
starry cope,
starry heaven,
starry host;
firmament;
Midgard;
supersensible regions†;
varuna;
vault of heaven,
canopy of heaven;
celestial spaces.
heavenly bodies,
stars,
asteroids;
nebulae;
galaxy,
milky way,
galactic circle,
via lactea [Lat.],
ame no kawa [Jap.].
sun,
orb of day,
Apollo†,
Phoebus;
photosphere,
chromosphere;
solar system;
planet,
planetoid;
comet;
satellite,
moon,
orb of night,
Diana,
silver-footed queen;
aerolite†,
meteor;
planetary ring;
falling star,
shooting star;
meteorite,
uranolite†.
constellation,
zodiac,
signs of the zodiac,
Charles's wain,
Big Dipper,
Little Dipper,
Great Bear,
Southern Cross,
Orion's belt,
Cassiopea's chair,
Pleiades.
colures†,
equator,
ecliptic,
orbit.
[Science of heavenly bodies]
astronomy;
uranography,
uranology†;
cosmology,
cosmography†,
cosmogony;
eidouranion†,
orrery;
geodesy
etc.
(measurement)
466;
star gazing,
star gazer†;
astronomer;
observatory;
planetarium.
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Roget 31:
greatness
etc.
adj.;
magnitude;
size
etc.
(dimensions)
192;
multitude
etc.
(number)
102;
immensity;
enormity;
infinity
etc.
105;
might,
strength,
intensity,
fullness;
importance
etc.
642.
great quantity,
quantity,
deal,
power,
sight,
pot,
volume,
world;
mass,
heap
etc.
(assemblage)
72;
stock
etc.
(store)
636;
peck,
bushel,
load,
cargo;
cartload†,
wagonload,
shipload;
flood,
spring tide;
abundance
etc.
(sufficiency)
639.
principal part,
chief part,
main part,
greater part,
major part,
best part,
essential part;
bulk,
mass
etc.
(whole)
50.
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Roget 3:
substantiality,
hypostasis;
person,
being,
thing,
object,
article,
item;
something,
a being,
an existence;
creature,
body,
substance,
flesh and blood,
stuff,
substratum;
matter
etc.
316;
corporeity†,
element,
essential nature,
groundwork,
materiality,
substantialness,
vital part.
[Totality of existences],
world
etc.
318;
plenum.
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Dutch: macrocosmos, macrokosmos, al, heelal, kosmos, ruim, ruimte, schepping, universum, wereldruim, wereldruimte ... show more
Polish: uniwersum, wszechświat, kosmos, makrokosmos, makroświat, świat
2 world
People in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest:
— The Western world.
synonym: domain.
3 world
All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you:
— His world was shattered.
— We live in different worlds.
synonym: reality.
Dutch: wereld
4 world
The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on:
— He sailed around the world.
synonyms: earth, globe.
Dutch: aardbol, Aarde, aarde, aardkloot, aardrijk, ondermaanse, wereld, wereldbol
Polish: błękitna planeta, świat, kula ziemska, Ziemia, glob, niebieska planeta, trzecia planeta od Słońca, padół
5 world
People in general considered as a whole.
synonyms: populace, public.
Dutch: gepeupel, buitenwacht, buitenwereld
6 world
A part of the earth that can be considered separately.
7 world
The concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife:
— They consider the church to be independent of the world.
synonyms: earth, earthly concern, worldly concern.
Dutch: aarde
8 world
All of the living human inhabitants of the earth:
— All the world loves a lover.
synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind.
Roget 372:
man,
mankind;
human race,
human species,
human kind,
human nature;
humanity,
mortality,
flesh,
generation.
[Science of man]
anthropology,
anthropogeny†,
anthropography†,
anthroposophy†;
ethnology,
ethnography;
humanitarian.
human being;
person,
personage;
individual,
creature,
fellow creature,
mortal,
body,
somebody;
one;
such a one,
some one;
soul,
living soul;
earthling;
party,
head,
hand;
dramatis personae [Lat.];
quidam [Lat.].
people,
persons,
folk,
public,
society,
world;
community,
community at large;
general public;
nation,
nationality;
state,
realm;
commonweal,
commonwealth;
republic,
body politic;
million
etc.
(commonalty)
876;
population
etc.
(inhabitant)
188.
tribe,
clan
(paternity)
166;
family
(consanguinity)
11.
cosmopolite;
lords of the creation;
ourselves.
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Dutch: aarde, wereld, mensdom, mensengeslacht, mensheid
Polish: ród człowieczy, ród ludzki, ludzkość, plemię Adamowe
adjective
1 world
Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope:
— A world crisis.
— Of worldwide significance.
synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide.
Polish: wszechświatowy, globowy, światowy, ogólnoświatowy, globalny
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