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1. (usually the world) The earth, together with all of its countries and peoples.
he was doing his bit to save the world
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2. (the world) All of the people and societies on the earth.
the whole world hates a Monday
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3. Denoting one of the most important people or things of their class.
they had been brought up to regard France as a world power
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4. Another planet like the earth.
Nevertheless, of all the worlds in our solar system, Mars is most like Earth.
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5. A particular region or group of countries.
Secondly, not all of the developed western world might be seen as civilised.
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6. A particular period of history.
As the title suggests, Ferguson believes that the British Empire shaped the modern world.
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7. A particular group of living things.
the animal world
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8. All that relates to a particular sphere of activity.
Yet in the unsentimental world of modern football, it could just happen.
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9. (one's world) One's life and activities.
It came as such a shock, and our worlds literally fell in.
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10. (the world) Human and social interaction.
It gets you interacting with the world in all sorts of different ways.
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11. Secular or material matters as opposed to spiritual ones.
The concept of Hell as a literal place has declined in an increasingly secular world.
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12. A stage of human life, either mortal or after death.
in this world and the next
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Origin
1. Old English w(e)oruld, from a Germanic compound meaning ‘age of man’; related to Dutch wereld and German Welt.
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