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umbworld

umbworld noun: the surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment.

Noun

umbworld (plural umbworlds)

  1. (neologism) The surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment.
    • Religion has grown out of our folk knowledge, out of our group explanations of the how’s and why’s of the umbworld.2009, Nature and World Cultures, Religious Ritual and Dissociation
    • The meanings we generate can definitely be maladaptive and/or destructive. I think the only thing that has saved Homo sapiens so far is that the mathematical averages have been on our side, so that, so far, the meanings we’ve created have been local and contained. Globalization may indeed give us a...2010, Becoming Jewish, Finding Meaning in Evolution…Maybe

Examples of umbworld in a sentence

  • Globalization may indeed give us a broader umbworld where our maladaptive ideas could result in the death of us all.2010, Becoming Jewish, Finding Meaning in Evolution…Maybe:
  • The use of chemical nematicides is being limited, given the growing concern for the umbworld and health of human being that has led to its ban.2021, Heba I. Mohamed, Hossam El-Din Saad El-Beltagi, Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam, Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes for Sustainable Biotic and...
  • But I wasn't alone, the umbworld too shed tears with me.2022, Dhruv Shah, Quill It Out, page 38:

Forms of umbworld

pluralumbworlds

Origin of umbworld

From umb- (“around, about”) + world, a calque of German Umwelt (early 19th c.). Compare Dutch omwereld, Swedish omvärld, etc., also from the German.

Questions about umbworld

What does umbworld mean?
Umbworld means the surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment.
How do you use umbworld in a sentence?
Globalization may indeed give us a broader umbworld where our maladaptive ideas could result in the death of us all.
What part of speech is umbworld?
Umbworld is a noun.
What is the plural of umbworld?
The plural of umbworld is umbworlds.

Words near umbworld in the dictionary

  1. Umbrărești
  2. umbu
  3. Umbundu
  4. umburana
  5. umburanas
  6. umbworld
  7. umbworlds
  8. UMC
  9. umcast
  10. umcasting
  11. umcasts

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