Sentence:  The <WSD>world</WSD> was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the <WSD>world</WSD>, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed. As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Human collective existence; existence in general.