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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The world: generally used in phrases adopted from the French: as, the beau monde, the world of fashion.
  • noun A globe used as an ensign of royalty: usually mound. See mound.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
  • noun fashionable society. See Beau monde.
  • noun See Demimonde.

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  • noun The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • "_Oh, il est du vrai grand monde, du vrai grand monde_," said the

    Voskresenie. English Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • _l'homme du monde le plus aimable_, as the _meilleur ami_, and _le plus honnête homme du monde_.

    Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

  • 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).

    Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

  • '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 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • 1964 Les plus belles escroqueries du monde aka The Beautiful Swindlers 1965 Repulsion*

    Must Watch: Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer Official Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • 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 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • 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.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • 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?).

    faux amis - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe.

    Paris 2009

  • Then, one after another, countries around the monde* recognized the benefits of braille.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

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