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worlds

nounadverbverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//wɜːldz//
  • United States//wɝldz//

To a great extent; much; far.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of worldplural of world

  2. 2

    Variant of world championshipsAbbreviation of world championships.

    The boat designs (with their fiberglass construction-the “Plastic Fantastics”) showed great speed in a breeze in the Worlds, but suffered in lighter airs.

adverb

  1. 1

    figurativeTo a great extent; much; far.

    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

  1. 1

    Also a form of worldthird-person singular simple present indicative of world

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).