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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS.
     weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt,
     worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver["o]ld, Sw. verld,
     Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity;
     AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime,
     age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the
        system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
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              The invisible things of him from the creation of the
              world are clearly seen.               --Rom. 1. 20.
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              With desire to know,
              What nearer might concern him, how this world
              Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
        inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with
        human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. ``Lord of the
        worlds above.'' --I. Watts.
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              Amongst innumerable stars, that shone
              Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds.
                                                    --Milton.
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              There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants
              have never violated their allegiance to their
              almighty Sovereign.                   --W. B.
                                                    Sprague.
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     3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the
        sum of human affairs and interests.
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              That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
              Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
                                                    --Milton.
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     4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its
        concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any
        one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human
        affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given
        point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and
        action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious
        world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future
        world; the heathen world.
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              One of the greatest in the Christian world
              Shall be my surety.                   --Shak.
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              Murmuring that now they must be put to make war
              beyond the world's end -- for so they counted
              Britain.                              --Milton.
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     5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general
        affairs of life; human society; public affairs and
        occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
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              Happy is she that from the world retires. --Waller.
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              If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious,
              May Juba ever live in ignorance.      --Addison.
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     6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of
        life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as,
        to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and
        begin the world anew.
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     7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in
        general; the public; mankind.
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              Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to
              any purpose that the world can say against it.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
              For undertaking so unstaid a journey? --Shak.
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     8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven;
        concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the
        life to come; the present existence and its interests;
        hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the
        affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or
        wicked part of mankind.
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              I pray not for the world, but for them which thou
              hast given me; for they are thine.    --John xvii.
                                                    9.
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              Love not the world, neither the things that are in
              the world. If any man love the world, the love of
              the Father is not in him. For all that is in the
              world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
              eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
              but is of the world.                  --1 John ii.
                                                    15, 16.
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     9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity;
        a large number. ``A world of men.'' --Chapman. ``A world
        of blossoms for the bee.'' --Bryant.
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              Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak.
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              A world of woes dispatched in little space.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is
        possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not
        save him.
  
     A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or
        surprising to see. [Obs.]
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              O, you are novices; 't is a world to see
              How tame, when men and women are alone,
              A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
                                                    --Shak.
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     For all the world.
        (a) Precisely; exactly.
        (b) For any consideration.
  
     Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted
        Names in Fiction.
  
     To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] ``Thus goes every
        one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner and
        cry heighho for a husband!'' --Shak.
  
     World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world;
        the remotest regions.
  
     World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if
        in a state of existence having no end.
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              Throughout all ages, world without end. --Eph. iii.
                                                    21.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS.
     weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt,
     worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver["o]ld, Sw. verld,
     Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity;
     AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime,
     age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]
     1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the
        system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
  
              The invisible things of him from the creation of the
              world are clearly seen.               --Rom. 1. 20.
  
              With desire to know, What nearer might concern him,
              how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first
              began.                                --Milton.
  
     2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
        inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with
        human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. ``Lord of the
        worlds above.'' --I. Watts.
  
              Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant,
              but high-hand seemed other worlds.    --Milton.
  
              There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants
              have never violated their allegiance to their
              almighty Sovereign.                   --W. B.
                                                    Sprague.
  
     3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the
        sum of human affairs and interests.
  
              That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought
              death into the world, and all our woe. --Milton.
  
     4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its
        concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any
        one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human
        affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given
        point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and
        action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious
        world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future
        world; the heathen world.
  
              One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be
              my surety.                            --Shak.
  
              Murmuring that now they must be put to make war
              beyond the world's end -- for so they counted
              Britain.                              --Milton.
  
     5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general
        affairs of life; human society; public affairs and
        occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
  
              Happy is she that from the world retires. --Waller.
  
              If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May
              Juba ever live in ignorance.          --Addison.
  
     6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of
        life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as,
        to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and
        begin the world anew.
  
     7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in
        general; the public; mankind.
  
              Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to
              any purpose that the world can say against it.
                                                    --Shak.
  
              Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For
              undertaking so unstaid a journey?     --Shak.
  
     8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven;
        concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the
        life to come; the present existence and its interests;
        hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the
        affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or
        wicked part of mankind.
  
              I pray not for the world, but for them which thou
              hast given me; for they are thine.    --John xvii.
                                                    9.
  
              Love not the world, neither the things that are in
              the world. If any man love the world, the love of
              the Father is not in him. For all that is in the
              world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
              eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
              but is of the world.                  --1 John ii.
                                                    15, 16.
  
     9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity;
        a large number. ``A world of men.'' --Chapman. ``A world
        of blossoms for the bee.'' --Bryant.
  
              Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak.
  
              A world of woes dispatched in little space.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
     All . . . in the world, all that exists; all that is
        possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not
        save him.
  
     A world to see, a wonder to see; something admirable or
        surprising to see. [Obs.]
  
              O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame,
              when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can
              make the curstest shrew.              --Shak.
  
     For all the world.
        (a) Precisely; exactly.
        (b) For any consideration.
  
     Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted
        Names in Fiction.
  
     To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] ``Thus goes every
        one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner and
        cry heighho for a husband!'' --Shak.
  
     World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world;
        the remotest regions.
  
     World without end, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if
        in a state of existence having no end.
  
              Throughout all ages, world without end. --Eph. iii.
                                                    21.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  world without end
     adv.
     For all time.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  world without end
     adv.
     For all time.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  world without end
     adv.
     For all time.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  world without end
     adv.
     For all time.

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  world without end /wˈɜːld wɪðˌaʊt ˈɛnd/
  1. örökre
  2. mindörökkön örökké
  3. örökkön örökké
  4. világ végezetéig

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  永远,永久地

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     永远,永久

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