World-wide \World"-wide`\, a.
Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
worldwide
adj 1: spanning or extending throughout the entire world;
"worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic"
2: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in
scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither
national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis";
"of worldwide significance" [syn: global, planetary, world(a)]
3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and
ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley;
"universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical,
oecumenical, general, universal]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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