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subworld

subworld noun: a world that makes up part of a larger world.

Noun

subworld (plural subworlds)

  1. A world that makes up part of a larger world.
    • Maybe the best part of Quirke’s opus is her conjuring of this curiously sterile subworld: the climate-controlled screening rooms where her veteran colleagues gather (“always in macs, always carrying little briefcases as blazons of busyness, gray and indeterminate as pigeons and vigilant over their...2007 July 8, Alexandra Jacobs, “Movie Love”, in New York Times

Forms of subworld

pluralsubworlds

Origin of subworld

From sub- + world.

Questions about subworld

What does subworld mean?
Subworld means a world that makes up part of a larger world.
What part of speech is subworld?
Subworld is a noun.
What is the plural of subworld?
The plural of subworld is subworlds.

Words near subworld in the dictionary

  1. subworkers
  2. subworkgroup
  3. subworkgroups
  4. subworkman
  5. subworkmen
  6. subworld
  7. subworlds
  8. subwrite
  9. subwriter
  10. subwriters
  11. subwrites

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