Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The world: generally used in phrases adopted from the French: as, the beau monde, the world of fashion.
- n. A globe used as an ensign of royalty: usually mound. See mound.
Etymologies
Examples
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"_Oh, il est du vrai grand monde, du vrai grand monde_," said the
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_l'homme du monde le plus aimable_, as the _meilleur ami_, and _le plus honnête homme du monde_.
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On one level, the current album is an engaging aural travelogue of the Anglo-American power trio's Near and Far East tour (its title is more of the Police's pidgin-English wordplay, bastardising Zen, Jomo Kenyatta and monde, the French word for world).
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'Loka' designates in Sanscrit the world and people in general, in the same manner as the French word 'monde', and is derived according to Bopp, from 'lok' (to see and shine); it is the same with the Slavonic root 'swjet', which means both 'light' and 'world.'
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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1964 Les plus belles escroqueries du monde aka The Beautiful Swindlers 1965 Repulsion*
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A man who has no 'monde' is inflamed with anger, or annihilated with shame, at every disagreeable incident: the one makes him act and talk like a madman, the other makes him look like a fool.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
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I still get stuck for a half-second when I hear about l'ancien champion du monde (He doesn't look that old.) or l'actuel ministre du défense (Is there an imposter out there?).
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Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.
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Then, one after another, countries around the monde* recognized the benefits of braille.
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French definition: envie de voir le monde - a desire to see the world
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