Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

make the world go around

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.32 in modern English

Syllables: make the -world -go around
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

3

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To play an essential role in causing the things in life to work as they should; to underlie the fulfillment of the needs of human existence.

Example Sentences

""But say, Jeff, it's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. . . . Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!""
"Gabriele Salvatores's "Mediterraneo" is a deliberately charming comedy whose most daring conceit is that love, in one form and another, makes the world go around."
""It takes all kinds of people to make this world go around. . . . We all need to work together," she said."
"Money makes the world go around. And every year we make resolutions to save more of it, invest it more profitably and spend more wisely."
"Waller said agriculture makes the world go around, and there would be no clothing and no food without it."

Inflected Forms

makes the world go around (present, singular) making the world go around (participle, present) made the world go around (participle, past) made the world go around (past) make the world go round (alternative) make this world go around (alternative)

Questions

What does make the world go around mean?: To play an essential role in causing the things in life to work as they should; to underlie the fulfillment of the needs of human existence.

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