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world without end

/wurld/US // wɜrld //UK // (wɜːld) //

天下无不散之筵席,天下无不散的筵席,天下无贼,天地无极

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
    • : a particular division of the earth: the Western world.
    • : the earth or a part of it, with its inhabitants, affairs, etc., during a particular period: the ancient world.
    • : humankind; the human race; humanity: The world must eliminate war and poverty.
    • : the public generally: The whole world knows it.
    • : the class of persons devoted to the affairs, interests, or pursuits of this life: The world worships success.
    • : a particular class of people, with common interests, aims, etc.: the fashionable world.
    • : any sphere, realm, or domain, with all pertaining to it: a child's world; the world of dreams; the insect world.
    • : everything that exists; the universe; the macrocosm.
    • : any complex whole conceived as resembling the universe: the world of the microcosm.
    • : one of the three general groupings of physical nature: animal world; mineral world; vegetable world.
    • : any period, state, or sphere of existence: this world; the world to come.
    • : Often worlds. a great deal:That vacation was worlds of fun.
    • : any indefinitely great expanse.
    • : any heavenly body: the starry worlds.

Phrases

  • world is one's oyster, the
  • world of good, a
  • all over the place (world)
  • best of both worlds
  • bring into the world
  • come up (in the world)
  • dead to the world
  • for all the world
  • go out (of the world)
  • in one's own world
  • it's a small world
  • laugh and the world laughs with you
  • man of the world
  • move up (in the world)
  • not for all the tea in china (for the world)
  • on earth (in the world), what
  • on top of the world
  • out of this world
  • set the world on fire
  • think a lot (the world) of
  • third world
  • with the best will in the world

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • With fires burning in so many disparate corners of the world, one might assume that wildfires have been growing every year.

  • Democratic-run New Jersey and New York, with death rates of 181 and 168, respectively, would lead the entire world.

  • This makes TikTok the seventh most popular social media platform in the world.

  • Coastal wetlands have been shrinking around the world for the last century.

  • It housed humans for 40,000 years while our species grew and grew around the world.

  • The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.

  • Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.

  • Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.

  • People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.

  • Editorial and political cartoon pages from throughout the world almost unanimously came to the same conclusion.

  • Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.

  • All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.

  • There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.

  • That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?

  • The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.