Adjacent Words

world-wide definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, worldwide, world-wide]
2: spanning or extending throughout the entire world; "worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic" [syn: worldwide, world-wide]
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, worldwide, world- wide]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

World-wide World"-wide`, a. Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see worldwide