/wɜːld/
Translation
The Earth and all the people, places, and things on it.
Word origin
From Old English woruld, which first meant the age or life of human beings before it came to mean the Earth.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- woruld
Grammar
Examples
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"World" means the whole Earth and everyone on it.
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Here "world" means all the different places on Earth.
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"Worlds" is the plural, meaning more than one world.
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Grammar articles
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Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
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