*world*

pos>n. State of prosperity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They think it was never fair-world with them since. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A world between other worlds. Holland.

n. A worldly-wise person; a sophisticate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The combined territories of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Eastern Hemisphere, as distinguished from The Americas, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. Characteristic of former times especially in Europe; as, an old-world cottage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Biology) Native to the Old World; not found in the Americas; as, old-world monkeys. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature.
Syn. -- nonnatural, preternatural, transcendental. [ WordNet 1.5

2. Not worldly; preparing for or concerned primarily with the afterlife; -- of people. [ WordNet 1.5

n. 1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

That overspreads (with such a reverence)
This underworld. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The inferior part of mankind. [ R. ] Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not worldly; spiritual; holy. Hawthorne. -- Un*world"li*ness n. [1913 Webster]

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[ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. Rom. 1. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

With desire to know,
What nearer might concern him, how this world
Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. “Lord of the worlds above.” I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amongst innumerable stars, that shone
Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants have never violated their allegiance to their almighty Sovereign. W. B. Sprague. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the sum of human affairs and interests. [ 1913 Webster ]

That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world. [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the greatest in the Christian world
Shall be my surety. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end -- for so they counted Britain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy is she that from the world retires. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious,
May Juba ever live in ignorance. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as, to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and begin the world anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in general; the public; mankind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
For undertaking so unstaid a journey? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven; concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the life to come; the present existence and its interests; hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or wicked part of mankind. [ 1913 Webster ]

I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. John xvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 John ii. 15, 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large number. “A world of men.” Chapman. “A world of blossoms for the bee.” Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A world of woes dispatched in little space. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not save him. --
A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or surprising to see. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] O, you are novices; 't is a world to see
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] --
For all the world. (a) Precisely; exactly. (b) For any consideration. --
Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. --
To go to the world, to be married. [ Obs. ] “Thus goes every one to the world but I . . . ; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!” Shak. --
World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world; the remotest regions. --
World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end. [ 1913 Webster ] Throughout all ages, world without end. Eph. iii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ World + -ling. ] A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. [ 1913 Webster ]

A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

And worldlings blot the temple's gold. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. woroldlic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. “I thus neglecting worldly ends.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men. [ 1913 Webster ]

With his soul fled all my worldly solace. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With relation to this life; in a worldly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
By simply meek. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]