How to pronounce “world”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
• (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
• (metonymic, with "the") A majority of people.
• The Universe.
• (with "the") The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet.
• (with "a") Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
• (countable) (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
• (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
• A very large extent of country.
• In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.
• A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
• An individual or group perspective or social setting.
• (computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
• (video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
• (tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
• (informal) A great amount, a lot.
• (archaic) Age, era.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) 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.
• (transitive) To make real; to make worldly.

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