World is a common name for the planet Earth, but it was originally used to mean the sum of human civilization living on it, specifically human experience, history, or the 'human condition' in general.
In a metaphysical context, World may refer to the Universe, everything that constitutes reality: see World (philosophy).
Some authors, such as Carl Sagan, use the term worlds to refer to planets and moons collectively.
In English, the etymology of w...
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World is a common name for the planet Earth, but it was originally used to mean the sum of human civilization living on it, specifically human experience, history, or the 'human condition' in general.
In a metaphysical context, World may refer to the Universe, everything that constitutes reality: see World (philosophy).
Some authors, such as Carl Sagan, use the term worlds to refer to planets and moons collectively.
In English, the etymology of world may be a compound of the obsolete words like a compound of elements for example were meaning man and eld meaning age; thus, its etymology would be semantically rendered as "age or life of man". Compare to the word for "world" in a closely related language to English, Dutch, which is "wereld" and German which is "Welt", but itself a shortening of weralt (wer and alt)
'World' distinguishes the entire planet or population from any particular country or region: world affairs are those which pertain not just to one place but to the whole...
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