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The Word:: "World"

• W.O.R.L.D

Etymology

The venerable Cyclopaedia of men, Wiktionary, gives:

From Middle English world, weoreld, 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”). (*)

Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), Low German Werld (“world”), German Welt (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål verden (“world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“the world”).

Noun:

1. (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.

2. (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.

3. (metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.

4. The Universe.

5. (uncountable, with "the") The Earth.

6. (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.

7. A very large extent of country. (ie. the New World)

8. (fiction) A realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.

9. An individual or group perspective or social setting.

10. (computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.

11. (video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.

12. (tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.

13. (informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.

14. (archaic) Age, era.

Hyponyms:

• First World
• Fourth World
• free world
• Majority World
• New World
• Old World
• post-Cold War world
• Second World
• Third World

Derived terms:

• dead to the world
• end of the world
• have the world by the tail
• in the world
• it's a man's world
• lost to the world
• make the world go around
• mean the world to
• netherworld
• not the end of the world
• ocean world
• offworld
• out of this world
• phenomenal world
• real-world
• the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• the world is one's oyster
• the world is too much with someone
• think the world of
• umbworld
• underworld
• way of the world
• weight of the world
• window on the world
• world language
• world leader
• world peace
• world power
• world record
• World Series
• world soul
• world war
• World War I
• World War II
• World Wide Web
• world-class
• world-weary
• worldly
• world's end, World's End
• worldwide

Consonant roots:

• WRLD @ WR.LD @ WRL.D @ W.RLD

Consonant roots notarikon:

• W.R.L.D
• Whisper.Head.Staff.Door
• Hook.Head.Scepter.Transition
• Hook.Mind.Shepherd.Door
• .
• W.O.R.L.D
• Hook.Eye.Head.Shepherd.Doorway
• Attraction.Image.Mind.Curate.Transitions

Word-plays:

World @ whirled @ furled @ parolled

World @ we're led / lead @ we rolled @ woe ruled

World @ wer-eld ('man age/era') @ were-eld ('fairy time' @ 'fairy land')