world
/wɜːld/
#116 of 5,000 Core 1000
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
Gender
Pluralworlds
Examples
live world.
"World" means the whole Earth and everyone on it.
wants travel world.
Here "world" means all the different places on Earth.
Books show worlds.
"Worlds" is the plural, meaning more than one world.
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