Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Monde \Monde\ (m[^o]Nd), n. [F. See {Mundane}.]
   The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.] --A.
   Drummond.

   {Le beau monde} [F.], fashionable society. See {Beau monde}.
      

   {Demi monde}. See {Demimonde}.