Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state, a church, or other organization which exercises power in every part of the world or among all mankind.
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Examples
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It will then be time to sign a pact of friendship with the remaining world-power, in preparation for another attack.
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It will then be time to sign a pact of friendship with the remaining world-power, in preparation for another attack.
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In the UK, the post-war continuation of food rationing ought to have been a strong clue that one was not living in a world-power country.
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I mean, he brought the German economy back from out-of-control inflation, he kept crime down on his own soil, and sent Germany to industrial world-power in a matter of a few years.
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A world-power had fooled itself and taken self-destructive measures for no apparent reason!
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The European Union may grow into world-power status or it may not.
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Canada is a world-power, a highly respected world-power and it becomes our responsibility to nourish and maintain democratic ideas and ideals in a Continent where they are all challenged and threatened with extinction.
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It will then be time to sign a pact of friendship with the remaining world-power, in preparation for another attack.
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There were perhaps some present even then who knew the Kaiser's evil dreams of world-power, and his wicked ambition, and feared what it might cause.
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Assyria, not an independent and oppressive world-power; nor would its destruction have meant the return of the exiles of northern Israel.
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