worldling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mundane person, preoccupied with worldly affairs rather than spiritual matters.
Example Sentences
- "A foutra for the world and worldlings base!"
- "These wicked wares, that worldlings buy and sell, The moth will eat, or else the canker rust: All flesh is grass, and to the grave it must."
- "[…] if the simple look benevolently on money, how much more do your old worldlings regard it! Their affections rush out to meet and welcome money."
- "Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own."
- "His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Germanic *weraz Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi Proto-Germanic *alaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *aldiz Proto-Germanic *weraldiz Proto-West Germanic *weraldi Old English weorold Middle English world English world English -ling English worldling From world + -ling.