world

• (s) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
  • global war
  • global monetary policy
  • neither national nor continental but planetary
  • a world crisis
  • of worldwide significance
  global, world-wide, worldwide, planetary,

Nouns

• (n) everything that exists anywhere
  • they study the evolution of the universe
  • the biggest tree in existence
  cosmos, macrocosm, universe, existence, creation,
• (n) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
  • the Western world
  domain,
• (n) all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
  • his world was shattered
  • we live in different worlds
  • for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were
  reality,
• (n) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
  • the Earth moves around the sun
  • he sailed around the world
  Earth, earth, globe,
• (n) people in general considered as a whole
  • he is a hero in the eyes of the public
  populace, public,
• (n) a part of the earth that can be considered separately
  • the outdoor world
  • the world of insects
• (n) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
  • they consider the church to be independent of the world
  earthly concern, worldly concern, earth,
• (n) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
  • all the world loves a lover
  • she always used "humankind" because "mankind" seemed to slight the women
  human beings, humankind, human race, humans, mankind, humanity, man,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity