How do you use the word "world" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "world" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "world": Education in this world disappoints me. If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

World Meaning

/wɜːld/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.

nounThe subjective human experience, regarded individually.

Sentence Examples

Education in this world disappoints me.

If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

Researchers around the world are collaborating to develop a new vaccine.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

international global domain

Antonyms:

national

CEFR Practice Quiz

Scientists agree that the entire ____ must work together to solve global warming.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Traveling around the entire ____ has always been my dream, as I want to see many different cultures today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world From Middle English world, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”). Cognates Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), North Frisian Wārel, wäält, wråål (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Bavarian Wöd (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), German, Luxembourgish Welt (“world”), German Low German Wereld, Werld (“world”), Vilamovian wełt (“world”), Yiddish וועלט (velt, “world”), Danish verden (“world”), Elfdalian wärd (“world”), Faroese verð, verøld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”), Norn vrildan (“the earth”), Norwegian Bokmål verd, verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! / O brave new world, / That has such people in 't." — 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest:

"(Huxley is quoting William Shakespeare's play The Tempest in this novel's title)" — 1931, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World:

"So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?." — 2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK:

"The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note." — 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

"Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all." — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

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