world

US /wɜrld /

UK /wɜ:ld/

A1

noun

  • All the humans, events, activities on the earth
  • Political division due to some kind of similarity

Examples

He likes to sit outside his front door and watch the world go by.

We come into the world with nothing. He entered the world of politics in 1997. Showbusiness gave him the chance to escape into another world.