the world

noun

1
: the earth and all the people and things on it
He is famous throughout the world.
They sailed around the world.
The product is shipped halfway around/across the world.
The island was cut off from the rest of the world.
They want to see/travel the world.
2
: the people in the world
She felt that the world was against her.
They announced their discovery to the world.
The world watched as he attempted to break the Olympic record.
She felt the eyes of the world watching her.
3
: all that is important : everything
I would give my children the world if I could.

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Already capturing the world’s attention, their unexpectedly long mission took a political twist when President Trump and SpaceX’s Elon Musk pledged this year to accelerate the astronauts’ return and accused the former administration of stalling it. — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s largest government funder of biomedical research and makes financial and practical contributions to all stages of it, including pre-clinical scientific investigations, translational medicine, and clinical trials. — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025 When Did Ukraine Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons? Ukraine inherited the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 The parents’ intention was not only to get the boys out of their hair for a while but also to toughen them up and introduce them to the ways of the world well beyond what would now be called their comfort zones. — Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the world

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“The world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20world. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.

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