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^†.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

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.    ... show more

Dutch: macrocosmos, macrokosmos, al, heelal, kosmos, ruim, ruimte, schepping, universum, wereldruim, wereldruimte ... show more
Polish: uniwersum, wszechświat, kosmos, makrokosmos, makroświat, świat

People in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest:
— The Western world.

synonym: domain.

All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you:
— His world was shattered.
— We live in different worlds.

synonym: reality.

Dutch: wereld

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

People in general considered as a whole.

synonyms: populace, public.

Dutch: gepeupel, buitenwacht, buitenwereld

A part of the earth that can be considered separately.

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

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.    ... show more

Dutch: aarde, wereld, mensdom, mensengeslacht, mensheid
Polish: ród człowieczy, ród ludzki, ludzkość, plemię Adamowe

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