Worldname

• 1

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

• 2

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

• 3

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

• 4

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

• 5

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

• 6

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

• 7

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

• 8

  The specific world, or any of several specific constituent worlds, that humans live in, among any other (real or possible) worlds:

worldnoun/wɜːld/

• 1

  The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.

  • In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.
  • There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.
• 2

  The subjective human experience, regarded individually.

  • The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.
  • He was my world! [said of a slain companion]
• 3

  A majority of people.

  • Running after God is the only life worth living. Even though the world believes that living for God is boring, we believe that there is nothing more exciting.
• 4

  The Universe.

• 5

  The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.

  • People are dying of starvation all over the world.
  • “As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer and the harvest of autumn–the cycle of life is complete.” - quotation attributed to Irna Phillips.
• 6

  Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.

  • Who would want to live in a world like this?
• 7

  (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.

  • the best of all possible worlds. In the French original: le meilleur des mondes possibles. In German: die beste aller möglichen Welten.
• 8

  A distinct realm, capable of containing objects or inhabitants, which does not physically border other similar realms.

  • He's a highly advanced AI, and this is his world - one that he created from nothing. So, naturally, he has control over... everything. ...But so do we.

worldverb/wɜːld/

• 1

  To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.

  • There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.
  • In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.
• 2

  To make real; to make worldly.