(idiomatic) Something which provides information about or interaction with a variety of people, places, events, or things outside of one's immediate sphere of experience.

plural of woman of the world

(female equivalent of man of the world) A worldly or sophisticated woman, one well versed in the ways and dealings of humankind.

How. (used in rhetorical questions to criticize something as completely inconsistent with reality and/or logic).

(philosophy) A world conceived in the imagination of persons and concluded to be metaphysically and logically possible because it can be so conceived.

plural of world music

The spiritual world; the afterlife.

The most distant point possible.

(UK) Even with an optimistic and charitable outlook; used to indicate the intractability of a problem.

(as a minimum) Those Arabic-speaking independent states where Arabic is the main official and spoken language.