all the world
The entire populace
All the world means everyone or everything, used for emphasis: All the world knows she's lying.
The phrase appears in set expressions: for all the world means in every way or exactly (She looked for all the world like her mother).
All the world's a stage is Shakespeare's famous metaphor for human existence as performance.
- globeSpherical representation of landmasses
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- planetStar-orbiting spherical body
- humanityPeople as a whole
- human raceAll people collectively
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