world

1. noun /wɝəɫd̥,wɜː(ɹ)ld,wɝld,warl(d),wʌrl(d)/lang=sco

a) Human collective existence; existence in general.

There will always be lovers, till the world’s end.

b) The Universe.

People are dying of starvation all over the world.

Syn: Earth, globe, circle

2. verb /wɝəɫd̥,wɜː(ɹ)ld,wɝld,warl(d),wʌrl(d)/lang=sco

a) 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; cf to globalise

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 (cf. Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.

b) to make real; to make worldly <!

In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regimes failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.