Definitions
The earth and its people
Word origin
From Middle English world, 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”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”).
Used in a sentence
“In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.”
“There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.”
“O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! / O brave new world, / That has such people in 't.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues
01“Earth”5 letters
02“Earth, broadly”5 letters
03“Everything around us”5 letters
04“Globe”5 letters
05“Our planet and society”5 letters
06“Planet and its people”5 letters
07“Planet and people”5 letters
08“The globe”5 letters
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