WORLD
What does "WORLD" mean?
The earth, together with all its countries, peoples, and natural features.
Meanings
- The earth and all the life and human activity upon it. News of the discovery spread around the world in a single day.
- A particular sphere, domain, or field of activity or experience. She moved easily in the world of high finance.
- A planet or celestial body considered as a place that could support life. The telescope found a distant world orbiting a dim red star.
- Human society and its concerns, especially as opposed to a spiritual or private life. After years in the monastery he found the world loud and bewildering.
Did you know?
- WORLD literally meant 'the age of man': it began as a Germanic compound of 'wer' (man, as in werewolf) and a root for 'age', so the planet sense came much later than the human one.
Word origin
From Old English 'woruld', a Germanic compound of 'wer' (man) and a root meaning 'age'; its earliest sense was the age or life of man, not the physical planet.
Remember it
WORLD hides 'word': it takes only words to describe the whole world, and an L to roll it round.
A little poem
One blue spinning stone-
every map we ever drew
fits inside its curve.
haiku
What it teaches
The word for the planet first meant the span of a human life - the whole world begins at the scale of one person's days.
Quick facts
What does WORLD mean?
The earth, together with all its countries, peoples, and natural features.
Is WORLD a valid word?
Yes — WORLD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WORLD?
WORLD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does WORLD come from?
From Old English 'woruld', a Germanic compound of 'wer' (man) and a root meaning 'age'; its earliest sense was the age or life of man, not the physical planet.
What can WORLD teach us?
The word for the planet first meant the span of a human life - the whole world begins at the scale of one person's days.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.