world

everything that exists anywhere

"they study the evolution of the universe"

"the biggest tree in existence" people in general

especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest

"the Western world" all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you

"his world was shattered"

"we live in different worlds"

"for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were" the 3rd planet from the sun

the planet we live on

"the Earth moves around the sun"

"he sailed around the world" people in general considered as a whole

"he is a hero in the eyes of the public" a part of the earth that can be considered separately

"the outdoor world"

"the world of insects" the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife

"they consider the church to be independent of the world" all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

"all the world loves a lover"

"she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" involving the entire earth

not limited or provincial in scope

"global war"

"global monetary policy"

"neither national nor continental but planetary"

"a world crisis"

"of worldwide significance"

This article is about the World, meaning the Earth. For uses of the specific phrase "The World", see The World (disambiguation) ]] In English, ''world'' is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words ''were,'' man, and ''eld,'' age; thus, its oldest meaning is "age or life of man". Its primary modern meaning is the planet Earth, especially when capitalized: ''the World''. In this sense, a world map is a map of the surface of the Earth. World can also refer to world populationhuman population in general or to a distinct group of people.

Physical locations - In other contexts, "world" is sometimes used to mean any planet or natural satellitemoon; for example, Mars (planet)Mars and Titan (moon)Titan are two worlds within the solar system."World" is sometimes used to refer to the entire Universe. This is less common now that knowledge of space is more commonplace; however, it is still used vaguely in this sense (as in "the whole wide world"), which it is actually the most frequent sense in philosophy.

Other meanings - ''World'' can be used in less literal words; for example, two people with very little in common are "living in two different worlds." The "end of the world" usually means "the end of everything I am familiar with."

In Christianity ''the world'' connotes the fall of manfallen and corrupt world order of human society outside the community of believers. ''The world'' is frequently cited alongside ''the flesh'' and ''the Devil'' as a source of temptation that Christians should flee.

''World'' can also refer to a fictional setting, for example the world of ''Star Trek'' or the world of ''The Lord of the Rings''. See ''fictional realm''.

In knowledge engineering and knowledge level modeling, a system's ''world'' is the knowledge that system has about its environment.

The term can also be used in a culturally specific context: commentators increasingly refer, for example, to the "Muslim world" as if it were a distinct entity.

In Native American mythology, the Fifth World is the coming world that will exist after the current world.

''World'' can refer to World (Magazine)''WORLD'' Magazine, the fourth largest newsweekly in the United States.

First World, Second World, Third World - map !:Image:World-map-2004-cia-fact book-large-2m.jpg(larger version)]]The terms First World, Second World, and Third World were used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories. The three terms did not arise simultaneously. After World War II it became common to speak of the capitalist and Communist countries as two major blocs, scarcely using such terms as the "free world" as compared to the "communist bloc". The two "worlds" were not numbered. It was eventually pointed out that there were a great many countries that fit into neither category, and in the 1950s this latter group came to be called the Third World. It then began to seem that there ought to be a "First World" and a "Second World." These latter terms were always much less common.In the context of the Cold War:

First World refers to nations that were within the Western European and United States' sphere of influence — e.g., the NATO countries of North America and Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, and some of the former British EmpireBritish colonies such as Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

Second World referred to nations within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, principally the Warsaw Pact countries. Besides the Soviet Union proper, most of Eastern Europe was run by satellite governments working closely with Moscow. This term may or may not also refer to Communist countries whose leadership were at odds with Moscow, e.g. China and Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaYugoslavia. Recently, this term has been used to describe former Third World countries that have experienced too much development to be classified any longer as being a part of the Third World.

Third World refers to nations within neither sphere of influence, who were often members of the Non-Aligned Movement. They were mostly developing countrydeveloping countries, and many of them are located in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. They are often nations that were colonized by another nation in the past. After World War II, the First and Second Worlds struggled to expand their respective spheres of influence to the Third World. The militaries and intelligence services of the United States and the Soviet Union worked both secretly and overtly to influence Third World governments, with mixed success.There were a number of countries which did not fit comfortably into this neat definition of partition, including Switzerland, Sweden, and the Republic of Ireland, which chose to be neutral. Finland was under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence but was not communist, nor was it a member of the Warsaw Pact. Austria was under the United States' sphere of influence, but in 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic, it did so under the condition that it remained neutral.With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the term "Second World" largely fell out of use, though the term "Third World" remains popular, mostly as another term for developing countrydeveloping countries. The remaining Communist countries either became more isolated from the world economy, as in North Korea and Cuba, or began integrating capitalist concepts such as private enterprise into their societies and forging new trading ties with external capitalist economies, as in Vietnam and China.In more recent use, the term First World refers to developed nationdeveloped nations, while Third World, in contrast, refers to developing nationdeveloping/undeveloped nations.There is also the less commonly used term Fourth World, often used to refer to nations that lack any national representation at the UN, but that may enjoy representation at UNPO — indigenous peoples living within or across state boundaries.

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