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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 832 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WORLD , a word which has See also:

developed a wide variety of meanings from its See also:original etymological sense of the " See also:age of See also:man," " course of man's See also:life." In O. Eng. it appears under its true See also:form weoruld, being a See also:compound of wer, man (cf. See also:Lat. vir), and yldo, age, from eald, eld, old. Of the various meanings the See also:principal are the See also:earth (q.v.), as a See also:planet, or a large See also:division of the earth, such as the " old world," the eastern, the " new world," the western hemisphere; the whole of created things upon the earth, particularly its human inhabitants, mankind, the human See also:race, or a See also:great division of mankind See also:united by a See also:common racial origin, See also:language, See also:religion or See also:civilization, &c. A derived meaning is that of social life, society, as distinct from a religious life.

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