worlder
English
Etymology
From world + -er (“supporter”) or -er (demonym suffix).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɝldɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɜːldə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
worlder (plural worlders) (in combination)
- One who supports a certain idea of the world.
- One from a certain (figurative or literal) world.
- 2015 April 19, Joaquin Sapien, “"The worst elements of the department": New York cop blog is home to some of the most vile racism on the Internet”, in Salon[1]:
- Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: […] a Middle Eastern cab driver berated by an officer is termed a “third worlder” who should have his “head split open.”
Derived terms
- First Worlder
- flat-worlder
- New Worlder
- off-worlder
- Old Worlder
- one-worlder
- out-worlder
- real-worlder
- round-worlder
- Third Worlder