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. humankind; the human race; humanity: The world must eliminate war and poverty. the public generally: The whole world knows it. the class of persons devoted to the affairs, interests, or pursuits of this life: The world worships success.
a particular class of people, with common interests, aims, etc.: the fashionable world. any sphere, realm, or domain, with all pertaining to it: a child's world; the world of dreams; the insect world. everything that exists; the universe; the macrocosm. any complex whole conceived as resembling the universe: the world of the microcosm. one of the three general groupings of physical nature: animal world; mineral world; vegetable world. any period, state, or sphere of existence: this world; the world to come.
Often worlds. A great deal: That vacation was worlds of fun.
any indefinitely great expanse. any heavenly body: the starry worlds. Idioms. bring into the world,. to give birth to; bear: My grandmother brought nine children into the world.
to deliver (a baby): the doctor brought many children into the world. come into the world, to be born: Her first child came into the world in June.
for all the world,. for any consideration, however great: She wouldn't come to visit us for all the world. in every respect; precisely: You look for all the world like my Aunt Mary.
in the world,. at all; ever: I never in the world would have believed such an obvious lie. from among all possibilities: Where in the world did you find that hat?. on top of the world.
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out of this/ the world, exceptional; fine: The chef prepared a roast duck that was out of this world. set the world on fire, to achieve great fame and success: He didn't seem to be the type to set the world on fire. think the world of, to like or admire greatly: His coworkers think the world of him. world without end, for all eternity; for always. Old English woruld, worold 'human existence, the affairs of life,' also 'the human race, mankind,' a word peculiar to Germanic languages (cf. Old Saxon werold, Old Frisian warld, Dutch wereld, Old Norse verold, Old High German weralt, German Welt), with a literal sense of 'age of man,' from Proto-Germanic.wer 'man' (Old English wer, still in werewolf; see ) +.ald 'age' (see ). Originally 'life on earth, this world (as opposed to the afterlife),' sense extended to 'the known world,' then to 'the physical world in the broadest sense, the universe' (c.1200).
In Old English gospels, the commonest word for 'the physical world,' was Middangeard (Old Norse Midgard), literally 'the middle enclosure' (cf. Yard), which is rooted in Germanic cosmology.
Greek kosmos in its ecclesiastical sense of 'world of people' sometimes was rendered in Gothic as manaseþs, literally 'seed of man.' The usual Old Norse word was heimr, literally 'abode' (see home).
Words for 'world' in some other Indo-European languages derive from the root for 'bottom, foundation' (e.g. Irish domun, Old Church Slavonic duno, related to English deep); the Lithuanian word is pasaulis, from pa- 'under' + saule 'sun.' Original sense in world without end, translating Latin saecula saeculorum, and in.
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Latin saeculum can mean both 'age' and 'world,' as can Greek aion. World power in the geopolitical sense first recorded 1900. World-class is attested from 1950, originally of Olympic athletes.