[wəːld], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the earth, together with all of its countries and peoples
(e.g: he was doing his bit to save the world)

- a particular region or group of countries
(e.g: the English-speaking world)

- human and social interaction
(e.g: he has almost completely withdrawn from the world)


Phrases:
- a world away from
- a world of
- be not long for this world
- bring someone into the world
- come into the world
- come up in the world
- go down in the world
- in a world of one's own
- in an ideal world
- in the world
- look for all the world like
- man of the world
- not do something for the world
- out of this world
- see the world
- the best of both worlds
- the world and his wife
- the world over
- the world, the flesh, and the devil
- think the world of
- worlds apart

Origin:
Old English w(e)oruld, from a Germanic compound meaning ‘age of man’; related to Dutch wereld and German Welt