Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun world_record

1 sense of world record

Sense 1
world record -- (the best record in the whole world)
       => record -- (an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record")