World Definition
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
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Origin of World
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From Middle English world, weoreld, from Old English world, worold, woruld, weorold (“world, age, men, humanity, life, way of life, long period of time, cycle, eternity"), from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, worldly existence, mankind, age of man, world"), equivalent to wer (“man") +"Ž eld (“age"). Cognate with Scots warld (“world"), West Frisian wrâld (“world"), Dutch wereld (“world"), Low German Werld (“world"), German Welt (“world"), Swedish värld (“world"), Icelandic veröld (“the world").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English weorold wī-ro- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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