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world - O.E. woruld, worold "human existence, the affairs of life," also "the human race, mankind," a word peculiar to Gmc. languages, with a literal sense of "age of man," from P.Gmc. *wer "man" (O.E. wer, still in werewolf) + *ald "age." Original sense in world without end, translating L. sæcula sæculorum, and in worldly (O.E. woruldlic). Sense of "the earth and everything in it" developed in O.E. Worldwide is from 1632. World power in the geopolitical sense first recorded 1901. World war first attested 1909 as a speculation, probably a translation of Ger. Weltkrieg. Applied to the first one soon after it began in 1914. World War I coined 1939, replacing Great War as the most common name for it; First World War first attested 1947. World War II so-called since 1939; Second World War is from 1942. World class is 1950, originally of Olympic athletes.
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