单词 | world |
释义 | world (once / 9 pages) nadj The noun world usually refers to the earth, including both the planet itself and the organisms that live on it. If you say, "I want to get out and see the world," you want to go everywhere and see everything. World can also mean someone's individual experiences — your world changed when you got a cat — or one particular region or group, like an actor famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world. While today you can use the words world and earth interchangeably, world originally meant just human experience; the Old English wer, or man, plus ald, or age, together formed weralt: the age of man. WORD FAMILYworld: underworld, worldly, worlds+/underworld: underworlds/worldliness: worldlinesses/worldly: unworldly, worldlier, worldliest, worldliness USAGE EXAMPLESHe meets the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, and other world leaders. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) Because there was no government-run health plan in America, people without commercial health insurance were at the mercy of the world’s most expensive health system. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) But the US is still a global economic and financial power in a deeply interconnected world. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) 1n the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on he sailed around the world Syn|Exp Earth, earth, globe terrestrial planet a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system 2n everything that exists anywhere Syn|Hypo|Hyper cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe closed universe (cosmology) a universe that is spatially closed and in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter natural orderthe physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws naturethe natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man 3n a part of the earth that can be considered separately the outdoor world the world of insects Hyper part, piece a portion of a natural object 4n the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife they consider the church to be independent of the world Syn|Hyper earth, earthly concern, worldly concern concern something that interests you because it is important or affects you 5n all of the living human inhabitants of the earth all the world loves a lover Syn|Hyper human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind group, grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit homo, human, human being, manany living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage 6n people in general considered as a whole Syn|Hypo|Hyper populace, public admass the segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British) people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively 7n people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest the Western world Syn|Hypo|Hyper domain academe, academia the academic world Grub Streetthe world of literary hacks class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum people having the same social, economic, or educational status 8n all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you his world was shattered we live in different worlds Syn|Hypo|Hyper reality real life, real world the practical world as opposed to the academic world experience the content of direct observation or participation in an event 9adj involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope a world crisis Syn global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide international concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations |
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