world vs stratum

stratum vs world

world and stratum both are nouns.

world is an adjective but stratum is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
world	Yes	Yes	No	No
stratum	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stratum is a hypernym of world; that is, stratum is a word with a broader meaning than world:

world: people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
stratum: people having the same social, economic, or educational status

Other hypernyms of world include class, social class, socio-economic class.

world (noun)	stratum (noun)
all of the living human inhabitants of the earth	an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you	a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling
the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife	people having the same social, economic, or educational status
people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest	one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
people in general considered as a whole
the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
everything that exists anywhere
a part of the earth that can be considered separately

world (adjective)	stratum (adjective)
involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope

Difference between world and stratum

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