How to pronounce“world”in English
We’ve got seven billion people and there are a billion of them hungry. The answer is, less than half of the grain that we grow goes into people’s mouths. Divide the
world’s grain into six equal pieces. One piece we use to make biofuels, starches, for
seed and other industrial uses; plastics. Two-sixths, we feed to our domestic animals of the rich people, those who have the means to afford those animals and meet products.
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Definitions of “world”
The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in.
“In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.”
The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
“The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.”
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.
“There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.”
To make real; to make worldly.
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