Definition of world

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World (n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men; general affairs of life; human society; public affairs and occupations; as, a knowledge of the world..

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Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction..
Art :: Art (n.) The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.
Element :: Element (n.) The whole material composing the world.
Nature :: Nature (n.) The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe..
Ultramundane :: Ultramundane (a.) Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system..
Copernican :: Copernican (a.) Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system..
Surround :: Surround (v. t.) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world..
Earthly-minded :: Earthly-minded (a.) Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded.
Omnipotent :: Omnipotent (a.) Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent..
Reclusion :: Reclusion (n.) A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.
Dropwort :: Dropwort (n.) An Old World species of Spiraea (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves..
Simian :: Simian (n.) Any Old World monkey or ape.
Roller :: Roller (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or tumbling in flight..
Creation :: Creation (n.) The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence..
Figure :: Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..
Dives :: Dives (n.) The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling..
Aureole :: Aureole (n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil..
Worldly :: Worldly (a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men..
Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble..
Worldly :: Worldly (a.) Lay, as opposed to clerical..
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