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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | planet, globe |
| Synonyms: | cosmos, creation, earth, heavenly body, macrocosm, microcosm, nature, sphere, star, terrene, universe |
| Main Entry: | world |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's environment, experience |
| Synonyms: | ambience, area, atmosphere, business, domain, field, life, matters, memory, province, pursuits, realm, sphere, system |
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| Concept: | World. |
| Synonyms: |
-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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| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
| Antonyms: | deadness |
| Main Entry: | cosmos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | universe |
| Synonyms: | creation, galaxy, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, nature, solar system, star system, world |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | all living things |
| Synonyms: | cosmos, life, living world, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, nature, totality, universe, world |
| Antonyms: | death |
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, hand one is dealt, individuality, journey, lifing, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race, real world, reality, something, subsistence, survival, the big game, world |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimateness |
| Main Entry: | flesh |
| 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: | global |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldwide, all-encompassing |
| Synonyms: | all-around, all-inclusive, all-out, blanket, catholic, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, earthly, ecumenical, encyclopedic, exhaustive, general, grand, international, mundane, overall, pandemic, planetary, spherical, sweeping, thorough, total, unbounded, universal, unlimited, world |
| Antonyms: | individual, limited, local |
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