Dictionary Entry
world
world is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
- 2noun
Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds.
- 3noun
The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests.
- 4noun
In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
- 5noun
The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
- 6noun
Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew.
- 7noun
The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind.
- 8noun
The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind.
- 9noun
As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number.
- 10noun
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"
- 11noun
the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
"they consider the church to be independent of the world"
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- 12noun
all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
"his world was shattered"
"we live in different worlds"
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- 13noun
people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
"the Western world"
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- 14noun
people in general considered as a whole
"he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
- 15noun
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
"the Earth moves around the sun"
"he sailed around the world"
- 16noun
everything that exists anywhere
"they study the evolution of the universe"
"the biggest tree in existence"
- 17noun
a part of the earth that can be considered separately
"the outdoor world"
"the world of insects"
- 18adjective
involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
"global war"
"global monetary policy"
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