WORLD
ADJECTIVES
1647 ► MUNDICIDIOUS world-destroying; likely or able to destroy the world → obs. rare
1656 ► MUNDIVAGANT wandering about the world, roaming through the world → obs.
1656 ► ULTRAMUNDANE lying beyond or outside of the world; belonging to things beyond the limits of the solar system
1832 ► SUBMUNDANE existing beneath the world
1908 ► MONDIAL affecting or involving the whole world; worldwide, universal
NOUNS
1300 ► ALL LEDE all the people, all the world, everybody → obs.
1400 ► THIS VALE the world regarded as a place of trouble, sorrow, misery, or weeping
1534 ► MUNDAL the world, the earth → obs.
1587 ► STUPOR MUNDI the wonder of the world; a person who or thing which is an object of general or widespread astonishment, admiration, or bewilderment; a marvel, a prodigy
1600 ► COSMOSIE the world or universe as an ordered and harmonious system → obs.
1601 ► ORB the earth, the world → obs.
1678 ► COSMOLATRY worship of the world
1768 ► MIDDLE-ERD the earth, the world → Sc.
1812 ► THE FOREST OF FOOLS the world
1883 ► MALISM the doctrine that this world is an evil one
1960 ► OUTSIDE the world beyond one’s home and domestic life → African-American sl.
1960 ► THE WORLD the world as lived outside an institution, e.g. the army, a prison → US sl.
1978 ► FAST LANE the active, competitive, and ruthless world fought over by those of ambition and intent
1991 ► COSMOLATRY the worship of the world (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1509 ► MUNDANE a dweller in the earthly world → obs.
1614 ► COSMOPOLITE a man of this world; a worldling → obs.
1622 ► COSMOPOLITE a ‘citizen of the world’; one who regards the whole world as his country; one who has no national attachments or prejudice
1806 ► AEONIST a person who believes in the eternal duration of the world → obs.
1882 ► BONIST one who believes that the world is good, but not the best possible
1882 ► MALIST one who holds the doctrine that this world is an evil one
PHRASES
1980 ► THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH the world is a hard place and one must work for what one gets → US sl.
VERBS
1592 ► COSMOGRAPHIZE to describe the world in a map or cosmography
1724 ► COSMOGRAPHATE to describe the world → obs.