The article raises the problem of registering phrasal connections as well as meanings and metaphorical uses, including the lexeme 'swiat' (the world) in five Polish language dictionaries. The comparison of word connections gathered at the entry 'swiat' shows differences in the decisions like whether a certain word connection should be defined as a phrasal connection, whether a constitutive part of such a connection ought to be described as metaphorical, or whether a certain phrase or an expression should be classified as a term or as an example of using a specific meaning of the word.