world record
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- noun
- /wɜrld ˈrɛkərd/
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récord mundial
- During his career, he broke seven world records in individual events and relays.
- hold the world record
Do you know what the world record is for push ups?
- Do you know what the world record is for push ups?
- He only ever beats his world record by a centimeter each time.
- And between Peter and Helen, they hold the world record for attending Stanford events.
- A strongman dressed as Santa has just set a new world record for heaviest sleigh pulled.
- It's so humbling to take a world record holding athlete and humble them right back.
- So you have these two lake attempts to, you know, break the world record for longest lake swim.
- I'm also going to be trying to break the world record Atlas Stone lift out there as well.
- And then break a world record live on Instagram.
- So that's Alexi's world record, and Alexi wasn't there.
- Plans to set a world record for the Guinness World Records book.
Examples
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Dan Davis of the United States finishes with a time of 8. 72 seconds... ... a new world record.
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Mac is about to beat the world record!
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At the time, she held the world record of 14 straight hours.
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That is a world record!
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That was a world record.
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Do you know what the world record is for push ups?
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Now it's time to break the 200 free world record and to destroy the 400 free world record.
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Margot is a world record holder.
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It's a world record.
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Yesterday, she beat her own world record in the fifteen hundred freestyle by six seconds.
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'world' (global) with 'record' (an officially noted best performance); a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer 'the best achievement recorded worldwide'. This noun-noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., récord mundial, record du monde, 世界記録), so the sense is immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
World record comes from the image of a big book that keeps the top result from the whole world, where the very best performance is written down as the official record. That's why world record means 'the best achievement that has ever been officially recorded anywhere'.