• the concerns of the World as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of the World"
• all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his World was shattered"; "we live in different Worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
• all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the World loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind'' because `mankind'' seemed to slight the women"
• people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western World"
• people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
• the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the World"
• everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence"
• a part of the earth that can be considered separately; "the outdoor World"; "the World of insects"

'World' in other languages