Definitions:

1. a part of the earth that can be considered separately noun
   • the outdoor world
2. all of one's experiences that determine how things appear noun
   • The child's world was shattered on the discovery that Santa wasn't real.
3. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth noun
   • all the world loves a lover
4. the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife noun
   • they consider the church to be independent of the world

Synonyms:

• creation
• domain
• earth
• earthly concern
• globe
• man
• public
• reality
• worldly concern
• worldwide

NearBy Words:

• world-beater
• world-class
• world-shaking
• world-shattering
• world-weariness
• world-weary
• world-wide
• worldliness
• worldling
• worldly
• worldly-minded
• worldly-wise
• worldwide