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Word entry · 5 letters

world

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"Earth"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /wɜːld/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted dlorwStarts with WEnds with D8 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues

01Earth5 letters
02Earth, broadly5 letters
03Everything around us5 letters
04Globe5 letters
05Our planet and society5 letters
06Planet and its people5 letters
07Planet and people5 letters
08The globe5 letters

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