one-worlder

[ wuhn-wurl-der ]

/ ˈwʌnˈwɜrl dər /

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noun

a person who supports or believes in any of various movements to establish a world government or a federation of nations stronger than any individual nation, for the purpose of promoting the common good.

a person who believes in the possibility of peaceful cooperation among nations.

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Origin of one-worlder

1945–50; one world + -er¹

Words nearby one-worlder

one-way, one-way mirror, one way or another, one-way ticket, one-woman, one-worlder, on faith, take it, on file, on fire, on foot, ONFr.

How to use one-worlder in a sentence

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
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The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
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Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
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He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
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Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
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