my world
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5.9
- noun
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mi mundo
- I am doing this because he is my life, my world, and my true love.
- a part of my world
- make my world
For me, it was kind of like my world felt very unstable.
- For me, it was kind of like my world felt very unstable.
- I mean, baby, you light up my world like nobody.
- I mean, that's my world and we're all friendly.
- Like I just, my, my world was blown apart.
- And I just, I mean, my world was just starting to damn fall apart.
- It's not part of my world anymore.
- Did I use my skills to leave my people, my country, my world a better place?
- You know, it's, again, my world has ended several times over.
- And in my world, those are the guys who I want to meet.
- And I had no idea the level of which my world was going to get rocked.
- And it rocked my world and changed kind of my path forevermore.
Examples
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In my world, kindness and understanding are the most important values.
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And in my world, those are the guys who I want to meet.
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The most important thing in my world these days, folks, is sleep.
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It's not part of my world anymore.
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Did I use my skills to leave my people, my country, my world a better place?
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You know, it's, again, my world has ended several times over.
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I wanted my world to be real.
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Look, it was my world, too.
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In a matter of 15 seconds, my world had changed.
Fiction book (1994) -
I fear for my country and my world if that man becomes our leader.
Blog text (8)
Synonyms
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4.8
A person's own life, feelings, and view of things
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4.4
A person's main ideas and beliefs about the world and life
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7.0
Being so focused on private thoughts or feelings that you do not notice people nearby
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4.6
A set of ideas about life and how things fit together
The everyday world a person or group lives in and experiences
How Personal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person's own experience or perspective' is directly built from the possessive 'my' (belonging to me) combined with 'world' (one's sphere of experience), so the phrase transparently denotes the speaker's personal sphere. This possessive + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal compositional rules, making it understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The phrase my world comes from the picture of a small, private world around a person: my shows it belongs to them and world stands for the life, people, and things close to them. So when someone says my world, they mean 'their own life, experiences, or everything important to them'.