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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humankind |
| Synonyms: | animality, carnality, homo sapiens, human nature, human race, humanity, living creatures, mortality, people, physical nature, physicality, race, sensuality, stock, world |
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe |
| Notes: | people is a term equivalent to cows and horses - like a herd of humans; persons is used in regard to our external aspects and refers to a number of individuals |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
| Main Entry: | world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | class of existing beings |
| Synonyms: | class, division, everybody, everyone, group, human race, humanity, humankind, race, realm |
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| Concept: | World. |
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-nouns
world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm; music of the spheres., heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces., heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea., sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite., constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades., colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit., [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology; cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony; eidouranion, orrery; goedesy (measurement); star gazing, star gazer; astronomer; observatory; planetarium.
-adjectives
cosmic, cosmical; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun; sublunary, subastral., solar, heliacal; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral; astral; nebular; uranic.
-adverbs
in all creation, on the face of the globe, here velow, under the sun.
-phrases
die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]; "green calm below, blue quietness above" [Whittier]; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World" [Paradise Lost]; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful" [Tennyson]; "silently as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]; "some touch of nature's genial glow" [Scott]; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]; "through knowledge we behold the World's creation"
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