worlds
Appearance
See also: Worlds
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /wɝldz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɜːldz/
Noun
[edit]worlds
- plural of world
- (colloquial) Abbreviation of world championships.
- 1986, Motorboating, volume 158, number 1, page 90:
- The boat designs (with their fiberglass construction-the “Plastic Fantastics”) showed great speed in a breeze in the Worlds, but suffered in lighter airs.
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]worlds (not comparable)
- to a great extent; much; far
- 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- The show understands that implied nudity is worlds funnier than actual nudity, and goes to delightful lengths to keep Marge and Homer’s unmentionables out of view.
Verb
[edit]worlds
- third-person singular simple present indicative of world