Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • As wide as the world; extending over or pervading all the world; widely spread: as, world-wide fame; specifically, in zoögeog., cosmopolitan: noting such habitat, or the fact of such distribution, but not the species or individuals themselves which inhabit all parts of the world.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Extended throughout the world.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of worldwide.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective spanning or extending throughout the entire world
  • adjective of worldwide scope or applicability
  • adjective involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
  • adjective of worldwide scope or applicability
  • adjective spanning or extending throughout the entire world
  • adjective involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope

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Examples

  • Overnight, the Alabang condom ordinance became the fourth-most discussed term world-wide on the Twitter microblogging website.

    Birth-Control Debate Roils Philippines James Hookway 2011

  • In 2008, according to the bibliography review "Year's Work in English Literature," more than 100 new scholarly books on Shakespeare were published in English world-wide.

    Academia's Crisis of Irrelevance Naomi Schaefer Riley 2011

  • Capitalize Depression and the Great Depression when referring to the world-wide economic slump that began with the stock-market collapse of Oct. 28-29, 1929, and continued through most of the 1930s.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • Capitalize Depression and the Great Depression when referring to the world-wide economic slump that began with the stock-market collapse of Oct. 28-29, 1929, and continued through most of the 1930s.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • Until the last few weeks it seemed that was the case but most recently another sector tied directly to global growth and the so-called world-wide recovery is painting a different picture.

    Forbes.com: News Quint Tatro 2011

  • For anyone who wants to know where U.S. hospitals rank in world-wide standards of care, it might be instructive to obtain the New England Journal of Medicine report from recent years.

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  • I (and thousands of other software folks world-wide) spent 2-3 years testing various pieces of software to make sure it would survive the rollover, and fixing it where needed.

    Matthew Yglesias » Baby, It’s Cold Outside 2010

  • Suspicious packages found on US-bound planes in Britain and Dubai sparked a world-wide investigation into what President Obama referred to as "a credible terrorist threat."

    Suspicious Packages Found On Flights, A Timeline (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • American capitalist ever aids an English capitalist in the common fight, while workmen have formed international unions, the socialists a world-wide international organization, and on all sides space and race are bridged in the effort to achieve solidarity.

    THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010

  • The letter asked for new activist ideas in this time of earth emergency, and asked for a world-wide "work party" on 10/10/10.

    Reverend Billy: 9/11 vs. the Earth Reverend Billy 2010

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