world

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /wɝəɫd̥/
• (UK) IPA: /wɜː(r)ld/, SAMPA: /w3:(r)ld/
• (US) enPR: wûrld, IPA: /wɝld/, SAMPA: /w3`ld/
• (Scots) IPA: /warl(d)/ or /wʌrl(d)/, SAMPA: /warl(d)/ or /wVrld/

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Homophones

(in accents with the wine-whine merger and the fern-fir-fur merger)

• whirled
• whorled

Noun

Singular world

Plural worlds

1. The Earth.

   Our world needs to be cared for.

2. The Universe.

   I love you more than anybody else in the world.

3. The setting of a group of people.

   They were in their own world as they talked about trains nobody else knew about.

4. A planet.

   I wonder if there is life on other worlds.