Main entry: man, mankind, human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, world
Definition: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Usage: all the world loves a lover; she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
Main entry: earth, earthly concern, world, worldly concern
Definition: the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
Usage: they consider the church to be independent of the world
Definition: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
Usage: his world was shattered; we live in different worlds; for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were
Definition: people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
Usage: the Western world
Main entry: public, populace, world
Definition: people in general considered as a whole
Usage: he is a hero in the eyes of the public
Main entry: earth, Earth, globe, world
Definition: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
Usage: the Earth moves around the sun; he sailed around the world
Main entry: universe, macrocosm, existence, world, cosmos, creation
Definition: everything that exists anywhere
Usage: they study the evolution of the universe; the biggest tree in existence
Main entry: world
Definition: a part of the earth that can be considered separately
Usage: the outdoor world; the world of insects
Main entry: global, world, world-wide, worldwide, planetary
Definition: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
Usage: global war; global monetary policy; neither national nor continental but planetary; a world crisis; of worldwide significance