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 |