Worldliness

Definition

world /wɜ:ld/ n ၁။ the world [sing] ကမ႓ာ။ ကမ႓ာေျမ။ a journey round the world ❍ travel (all over) the world ❍ the rivers and oceans of the world ❍ The whole world would be affected by a nuclear war. ❍ Which is the largest city in the world? ❍ English is a world language (ie is used everywhere in the world). ၂။ the world [sing] ေလာက။ the creation of the world. ၃။ [sing] သီးျခားကမ႓ာ။ the western world ❍ the English- speaking world (ie those parts where English is spoken as the first language) ❍ the Roman world (ie the part of the earth that the Romans knew). See also THE NEW WORLD, THE OLD WORLD, THE THIRD WORLD ၄။ [C] ကမ႓ာကဲ့သို႔ေသာ (အျခား)ၿဂိဳဟ္။ There may be other worlds out there. ၅။ [sing] ဘဝ။ this world and the next (ie life on earth and existence after death) ❍ the world to come (ie life after death) ❍ come into the world (ie be born) ❍ It's a sad world where there is such terrible suffering. ၆။ the world [sing] (က) လူ႕ေလာက။ လူ႕အေၾကာင္း။ He showed no interest in the world around him. ❍ She's gone off to see the world for a year before she starts university ❍ He's too young to understand the ways of the world. (ခ) ေလာကီ။ ကာမဂုဏ္။ the temptations of the world ❍ She decided to renounce the world and enter a convent. ၇။ the world [sing] (က) တစ္ေလာကလံုး။ The whole world seemed to be at the party. ❍ She felt that the (whole) world was against her. ❍ There's no need to tell the whole world about it! (ခ) လူတကာ။ အမ်ားသူငါ။ I don't care what the world thinks. ၈။ [C] (often in compounds) … ေလာက။ …နယ္။ …ကမ႓ာ။ the animal/ insect world ❍ the world of art/ politics/ sport ❍ the racing/ scientific/ theatre world ❍ The medical world is divided on this issue. ❏ be all the world to sb [ IDM ] အသက္ပဲ။ အသက္ဘူးပဲ။ ❏ be worlds apart [ IDM ] ျပဒါးတစ္လမ္း သံတစ္လမ္း။ Politically, they're worlds apart. ❏ come up/ go down/ in the world [ IDM ] လူတစ္လံုး သူတစ္လံုးျဖစ္သည္။ ေကာင္းစားသည္/ လူရာမဝင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ဘဝပ်က္သည္။ They've come up in the world since I last met them. ❏ for all the world as if…/ like sb/ sth [ IDM ] …သလိုပဲ။ She behaved for all the world as if nothing unusual had happened! သူ႕အမူအရာက ဘာမွ်မျဖစ္ခဲ့သလိုဘဲ။ ❍ He looked for all the world like a naughty schoolboy caught stealing apples. သူ႕ၾကည့္ရတာ ပန္းသီးခိုးတဲ့ကေလး လူမိသလိုပဲ။ ❏ (not) for (all) the world [ IDM ] ဘာႀကီးပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ I wouldn't sell that picture for all the world. ❏ (be/ live) in a world of one's own [ IDM ] ဘာသိဘာသာ (ေနသည္)။ ❏ a man/ woman of the world [ IDM ] အေတြ႕အႀကံဳ ရင့္က်က္သူ။ ❏ out of this world [ IDM ] ( infml ) အံ့ခ်ီး ကုန္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္။ The meal was out of this world. ❏ set the world on fire [ IDM ] ( infml ) လွ်မ္းလွ်မ္း ေတာက္ ေအာင္ျမင္သူ။ ❏ what is the world coming to? [ IDM ] (လူ႕ စိတ္ဓာတ္၊ သေဘာထား၊ အခ်ဳိးေျပာင္းလဲမႈကို မေက်နပ္မိ၊ အံ့အားသင့္မိ၊ အလန္႔တၾကား ျဖစ္မိရာ၌ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ေလာကႀကီး ဘာျဖစ္ေနၿပီလဲ။ When I listen to the news these days, I sometimes wonder what the world is coming to. ❏ (all) the world and his wife [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) တစ္ေလာကလံုး။ The world and his wife were in Brighton that day! ❏ world-beater n ၿပိဳင္စံရွား။ She has enough talent as a player to be a world-beater. ❏ world-class adj ကမ႓ာ့အဆင့္မီ။ a world-class writer/ athlete ❍ world-class hotels/ wines. ❏ world-famous adj ကမ႓ာေက်ာ္။ a world-famous pop star ❍ His books are world-famous. ❏ the world is one's oyster [ IDM ] ဘဝမွာ ထင္တိုင္း ေပါက္သည္။ With talent like that, the world is his oyster. ❏ worldly adj ၁။ ေလာက။ ေလာကီ။ one's worldly goods (ie one's possessions) ❍ worldly power/ success. ၂။ အေတြ႕အႀကံဳ ႂကြယ္ဝ၍ တည္ၿငိမ္ရင့္က်က္ေသာ။ After ten years in London, she's much more worldly than she was. worldliness n [U] ❏ worldly-wise adj [U] အေတြ႕အႀကံဳမ်ား၍ လိမၼာ ပါးနပ္ေသာ။ ❏ a/ the world of difference, good, etc [ IDM ] ( infml ) အင္မတန္႔အင္မတန္၊ အလြန္႔အလြန္ကြာသည္၊ ေကာင္းသည္ စသည္။ There's a world of difference between a packet of frozen peas and peas picked freshly from the garden. ❍ That trip did him the world of good. ❏ the (whole) world over [ IDM ] ဘယ္မွာမဆို။ People are basically the same the world over. ❏ world power n ကမ႓ာ့အင္အားႀကီးႏိုင္ငံ။ ❏ world war n ကမ႓ာစစ္။ the First/ Second World War. ❏ world-weary adj ေလာကႀကီးကို စိတ္ကုန္ေနေသာ။

Examples

1. We observe changes in the world’s climate.
2. Creatures from alien worlds
3. We want to guarantee our children a safer world.
4. [all over the world/throughout the world] : The same problems are faced by children throughout the world.
5. [the whole world] : The terrorists pose a threat to the whole world.
6. She’s won medals at three previous world championships.
7. The world economy
8. A world war
9. It was a choice between the world and God.
10. [go up in the world] : She’s gone up in the world
11. by marrying into money.
12. [go/come down in the world] : If you’re used to driving the newer models
13. you may feel that you’ve come down in the world.
14. It is the oldest institution in the English-speaking world.
15. This disease is increasing dramatically in the western world (=the countries of western Europe and North America).
16. This library was one of the wonders of the Ancient World.
17. The entertainment world
18. The world of work
19. Children feel powerful in the world of imagination that they create.
20. [bring a child into the world] : I wouldn’t want to bring a child into this cruel world.
21. [come into the world] : Thousands of babies come into the world every day.
22. [leave/depart this world] : There’s something I want to do before I depart this world.