small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
<noun.artifact>   freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 1

shop

workshop

a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

workshop

space allocated for your work (as in an office)
<noun.location>

workspace

a desktop digital computer that is conventionally considered to be more powerful than a microcomputer
<noun.artifact>

workstation

a table designed for a particular task
<noun.artifact>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

work table

worktable

heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work
<noun.artifact>

workwear

hours or days of work in a calendar week
<noun.time>   freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

week

workweek

sample sentences

"they worked a 40-hour week"

involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
<adj.all>   (a)   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

global

planetary

world

world-wide

worldwide

sample sentences

"global war"
"global monetary policy"
"neither national nor continental but planetary"
"a world crisis"
"of worldwide significance"

everything that exists anywhere
<noun.object>   freq. cnt.: 63 freq. cnt.: 49 freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

cosmos

creation

existence

macrocosm

universe

world

sample sentences

"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
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 34 freq. cnt.: 34

domain

world

sample sentences

"the Western world"

all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 52 freq. cnt.: 31 freq. cnt.: 21

reality

world

sample sentences

"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
<noun.object>   freq. cnt.: 82 freq. cnt.: 51 freq. cnt.: 26 freq. cnt.: 5

Earth

earth

globe

world

sample sentences

"the Earth moves around the sun"
"he sailed around the world"

people in general considered as a whole
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 53 freq. cnt.: 35 freq. cnt.: 16 freq. cnt.: 2

populace

public

world

sample sentences

"he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

a part of the earth that can be considered separately
<noun.object>   freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6

world

sample sentences

"the outdoor world"
"the world of insects"

the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 5

earth

earthly concern

world

worldly concern

sample sentences

"they consider the church to be independent of the world"

all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
<noun.animal>

human beings

human race

humanity

humankind

humans

man

mankind

world

sample sentences

"all the world loves a lover"
"she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

affairs between nations
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

international affairs

world affairs

sample sentences

"you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television"

a council with representatives from different nations
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

world council

an international alliance involving many different countries
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

global organization

international organisation

international organization

world organisation

world organization

an international alliance involving many different countries
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

global organization

international organisation

international organization

world organisation

world organization

a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

great power

major power

power

superpower

world power

(music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

world premiere

the best record in the whole world
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

world record

someone who travels widely and often
<noun.person>

globetrotter

world traveler

a comprehensive view of the world and human life
<noun.cognition>

Weltanschauung

world view

a war in which the major nations of the world are involved
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

world war

a competitor who holds a preeminent position
<noun.person>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

king

queen

world-beater

ranking above all others
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2

first

foremost

world-class

sample sentences

"was first in her class"
"the foremost figure among marine artists"
"the top graduate"

sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

earthshaking

world-shaking

world-shattering

sample sentences

"earthshaking proposals"
"the contest was no world-shaking affair"
"the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"

sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

earthshaking

world-shaking

world-shattering

sample sentences

"earthshaking proposals"
"the contest was no world-shaking affair"
"the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"

sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
<noun.feeling>

Weltschmerz

world-weariness

tired of the world
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bored

world-weary

sample sentences

"bored with life"
"strolled through the museum with a bored air"

of worldwide scope or applicability
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 21 freq. cnt.: 21

cosmopolitan

ecumenical

general

oecumenical

universal

world-wide

worldwide

sample sentences

"an issue of cosmopolitan import"
"the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
"universal experience"

spanning or extending throughout the entire world
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

world-wide

worldwide

sample sentences

"worldwide distribution"
"a worldwide epidemic"

involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
<adj.all>   (a)   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

global

planetary

world

world-wide

worldwide

sample sentences

"global war"
"global monetary policy"
"neither national nor continental but planetary"
"a world crisis"
"of worldwide significance"

concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs
<noun.attribute>

worldliness

sample sentences

"he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him"

the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
<noun.attribute>

mundaneness

mundanity

sophistication

worldliness

an inhabitant of the earth
<noun.person>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

earthling

earthman

tellurian

worldling

a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world
<noun.person>

worldling

characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

secular

temporal

worldly

sample sentences

"worldly goods and advancement"
"temporal possessions of the church"

very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world
<adj.all>

blase

worldly

sample sentences

"the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"
"the benefits of his worldly wisdom"

all the property that someone possesses
<noun.possession>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

worldly belongings

worldly goods

worldly possessions

sample sentences

"he left all his worldly possessions to his daughter"

the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 5

earth

earthly concern

world

worldly concern

sample sentences

"they consider the church to be independent of the world"