world – English noun declension

English noun forms of world

Noun: world
Singularworld
Pluralworlds

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest:]
  • (Huxley is quoting William Shakespeare's play The Tempest in this novel's title) [1931, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World:]
  • So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?. [2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK:]
  • The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.
  • He was my world! [said of a slain companion]
  • The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note. [1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:]
  • Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short. [2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:]
  • Running after God is the only life worth living. Even though the world believes that living for God is boring, we believe that there is nothing more exciting.
  • People are dying of starvation all over the world.
  • “As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer and the harvest of autumn–the cycle of life is complete.” - quotation attributed to Irna Phillips.
  • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat. [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background. [2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:]
  • She says the Third Pole is one of the world’s largest sources of fresh drinking water. [2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:]
  • So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?. [2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK:]
  • Who would want to live in a world like this?
  • the best of all possible worlds. In the French original: le meilleur des mondes possibles. In German: die beste aller möglichen Welten. [1710, Gottfried Leibniz, Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil):]
  • He's a highly advanced AI, and this is his world - one that he created from nothing. So, naturally, he has control over... everything. ...But so do we. [2026 March 20, Gooseworx, “hjsakldfhl” (21:09 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 8, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock):]
  • Our mission is to travel the galaxy and find new worlds.
  • A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour […]
  • A time to sicken and to swoon,
  • ⁠When Science reaches forth her arms
  • ⁠To feel from world to world, and charms
  • Her secret from the latest moon?’ [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:]
  • And They said to Kib: “What are these things that move upon The Earth yet move not in circles like the Worlds, that regard like the Moon and yet they do not shine?” [1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:]
  • Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain. [1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 118:]
  • I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds. [2007 September 27, Marc Rayman (interviewee), “NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio]
  • Frey [...] clambered up on to the Hildskjalf, the throne from which Odin could see everything that happened across the nine worlds. [2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 182:]
  • the world of Narnia
  • the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
  • a zombie world
  • the New World
  • In the world of boxing, good diet is all-important.
  • Welcome to my world.
  • According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle. [2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:]
  • Have you reached the boss at the end of the ice world?
  • There's a hidden warp to the next world down this pipe.
  • Taking a break from work seems to have done her a world of good.
  • You're going to be in a world of trouble when your family finds out.
  • That new wallpaper has made worlds of difference downstairs.
  • This movie isn't even billed as a comedy, but it's worlds funnier than the comedy I saw last month.
  • to think the world of someone
  • to mean the world to someone
  • Thy kingdom is a kingdom of al worldes: and thy domnion in al generation and generation. [1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Psalmes 144:13, page 257:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
4. Proto-Germanic *weraz
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
7. Proto-Germanic *alaną
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
9. Proto-Germanic *-þiz
10. Proto-Germanic *aldiz
11. Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
12. Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
13. Old English weorold
14. Middle English world
15. English world
16. 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”).
17. Cognates
18. Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), North Frisian Wārel, wäält, wråål (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Bavarian Wöd (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), German, Luxembourgish Welt (“world”), German Low German Wereld, Werld (“world”), Vilamovian wełt (“world”), Yiddish וועלט (velt, “world”), Danish verden (“world”), Elfdalian wärd (“world”), Faroese verð, verøld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”), Norn vrildan (“the earth”), Norwegian Bokmål verd, verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”). See: Middle English Nouns 'world', Old English Nouns 'weorold', Dutch Nouns 'wereld', Danish Nouns 'verden', Faroese Nouns 'verð', Icelandic Nouns 'veröld', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'verd', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'verd', Swedish Nouns 'värld'.

Verbs referencing "world"

German Nouns Welt, Dutch Nouns wereld, Danish Nouns verden, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns verd, English Nouns Shawol.