World Series
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship; "we watched the World Series on TV"
world traveler
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ someone who travels widely and often
World Trade Center
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built 1368 feet tall in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001
World Wide Web
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
world-weariness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
World Bank
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
world
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
world
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a part of the earth that can be considered separately; "the outdoor world"; "the world of insects"
world affairs
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ affairs between nations; "you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television"
World War I
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ 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 1914 to 1918
World War 1
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ 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 1914 to 1918
world
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ 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"
World Tamil Movement
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel; "the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war"
World Meteorological Organization
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ the United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data
World Trade Organization
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade
world organisation
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ an international alliance involving many different countries
Walt Disney World
— Navneord
– Engelsk
～ a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando
world-weary
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air"
world-shaking
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"
world-shattering
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
～ sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"