Definição/Significado de world
- English - Noun: Wikipedia world ( countable and uncountable , plural worlds ) ( with “the” ) Human collective existence; existence in general . There will always be lovers , till the world ’s end . The Universe . ( uncountable , with “the” ) The Earth . People are dying of starvation all over the world . 1915 , Emerson Hough , The Purchase Price , chapterI: Serene , smiling , enigmatic , she faced him with no…
- English - Verb: world ( third-person singular simple present worlds , present participle worlding , simple past and past participle worlded ) To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole , rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise . 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages…
- English - Etymology: From Middle English world , weoreld , from Old English world , worold , woruld , weorold ( “ world , age , men , humanity , life , way of life , long period of time , cycle , eternity ” ), from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz ( “ lifetime , worldly existence , mankind , age of man , world ” ), equivalent to wer ( “ man ” ) + eld ( “ age ” ). Cognate with Scots warld ( “ world ” ), Saterland Frisian…
- English - Pronunciation: ( General American , Canada ) enPR: wûrld , IPA (key) : /wɝld/ ( Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key) : /wɜːld/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld Homophones: whirled , whorled ( both only in accents with the wine-whine merger and the fern-fir-fur merger )
- English - See also: global globalisation , globalization