1 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" 3 the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of the world" 4 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" 5 people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world" 6 people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public" 7 the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world" 8 everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" 9 a part of the earth that can be considered separately; "the outdoor world"; "the world of insects"
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