Synonyms for World (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (everything that exists anywhere):
cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe
WordNet sense 2 (people in general considered as a whole):
populace, public
WordNet sense 3 (people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest):
domain
WordNet sense 4 (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on):
earth, globe
WordNet sense 5 (all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you):
reality
WordNet sense 6 (the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife):
worldly concern, earthly concern
WordNet sense 7 (all of the living human inhabitants of the earth):
humanity, humankind, man, mankind, humans, human beings, human race
WordNet sense 8 (involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope):
global, planetary, worldwide
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