| world record | the best record in the whole world |
| world war | a war in which the major nations of the world are involved |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
the way of the world
the ways of the world | the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen, the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world, she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil, he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world |
World War I
World War
Great War
First World War
War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
World War II
World War
Second World War | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from to |
New World goldfinch
goldfinch yellowbird Spinus tristis | American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer |
| New World sparrow | sparrow-like North American finches |
New World flycatcher
flycatcher tyrant flycatcher
tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
Old World flycatcher
true flycatcher
flycatcher | any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
Old World chat
chat | songbirds having a chattering call |
robin redbreast
robin redbreast Old World robin
Erithacus rubecola | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast |
Old World warbler
true warbler | small active brownish or greyish Old World birds |
New World warbler
wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
New World chat
chat | birds having a chattering call |
New World oriole
American oriole
oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
New World blackbird
blackbird | any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black |
Old World oriole
oriole | mostly tropical songbird, the male is usually bright orange and black |
| Old World jay | a European jay |
| New World jay | a North American jay |
| Old World vulture | any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia |
New World vulture
cathartid | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures |
Old World scops owl
Otus scops | European scops owl |
coral snake harlequin-snake
New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
| coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
| Old World quail | small game bird with a rounded body and small tail |
Old World crayfish
ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America |
Old World coot
Fulica atra | a coot found in Eurasia |
Old world white pelican
Pelecanus onocrotalus | similar to American white pelican |
European rabbit
Old World rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus | common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere, widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs, young are born naked and helpless |
| New World mouse | a variety of rodent |
| Old World porcupine | terrestrial porcupine |
| New World porcupine | arboreal porcupine |
Old World beaver
Castor fiber | a European variety of beaver |
New World beaver
Castor canadensis | a variety of beaver found in almost all areas of North America except Florida |
New World tapir
Tapirus terrestris | a tapir found in South America and Central America |
Old World buffalo
buffalo | any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo |
New World least weasel
Mustela rixosa | of Canada and northeastern United States |
Old World least weasel
Mustela nivalis | of Europe |
anteater
New World anteater | any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites |
world
human race
humanity
humankind
human beings
humans
mankind
man | all of the living human inhabitants of the earth, all the world loves a lover, she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women |
Old World monkey
catarrhine | of Africa or Arabia or Asia, having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together |
New World monkey
platyrrhine
platyrrhinian | hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails |
New World opah
Lampris guttatus | from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico |
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Seven Wonders of the World | impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe |
World Trade Center
WTC
twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
World Wide Web
WWW
web | computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol |
| spirit world | any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide, science has emptied the spirit world of its former inhabitants |
fantasy world
phantasy world
fairyland | something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) |
worldly concern
earthly concern
world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |