A term that represents the specific world humans live in, including earth, the universe, and various conceptual worlds such as the first world, second world, and developing world.

(with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.

(with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.

(metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.

The Universe.

(uncountable, with "the") The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context.

(countable) A planet or any other astronomical body that is inhabited or inhabitable.

A very large extent of country.

In various mythologies, cosmologies, etc., one of a number of separate realms or regions having different characteristics and occupied by different types of inhabitants.

A fictional realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.

An individual or group perspective or social setting.

(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.

(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.

(tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.

(informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.

To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.

To make real; to make worldly.