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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wideadjective

    of worldwide scope or applicability

    "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"

  2. worldwide, world-wideadjective

    spanning or extending throughout the entire world

    "worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic"

  3. global, planetary, world, worldwide, world-wideadjective

    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"

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  1. world-wide

    World-wide is an adjective or adverb referring to something that covers, involves, or affects all parts of the entire world; it spans or is extending throughout the globe. This term is often used to describe global scale events, phenomena, or activities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. World-wideadjective

    extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of world-wide in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of world-wide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of world-wide in a Sentence

  1. Alok Patel:

    I'd much rather have parents take their serious medical concerns to a pediatrician than the world wide web of anxiety, we're trained to not only identify and manage medical conditions ; we also have the experience to be able to calm and reassure parents.

  2. Lord Borwick of Hawkshead:

    I was sickened by the Biden quote that we could carry on in Afghanistan alone if we wanted, as I remember, we have always been aware of the problems in Afghanistan, and we spent many years there in Queen Victoria’s reign, regretting our exploits. But we were persuaded by our American friends to join them, to give world-wide authenticity (and US domestic authenticity) to an invasion by America. That was followed by an expensive period of ‘nation building,’ when the truth is that we cannot build someone else’s nation. It’s been hard enough building our own.

  3. Peter Gogarty:

    We have made history here in Australia,( this is the) highest ranked church official to ever be brought to account for what we know is a world wide systematic abuse of children and the concealment of that abuse, we have done something in Australia which no one else has been able to manage.

  4. Laura Mazza:

    Cathy continued to claimthat providing children with phones and screens causes them to grow up not normal. Cathy then revealed that she raised her children before iPads had been invented. Firing back, Mazza says she responded, I am a parent that grew up using a rotary phone. I am one that have seen the World Wide Web expand to what it is now. I have seen both sides of the coin, and now I am a parent in this world of one side. MOM SAYS THEATERS SHOULDNT ALLOW CERTAIN HAIRSTYLES AFTER TALL WOMAN WITH A BUN BLOCKED HER VIEW She continued to arguethat navigating this new world can be a very scary time. We are having to navigate this world without the support system that once existed. Ive had no support, no aunties and uncles sitting inside my house. No big village. The internet has become my village, and sometimes its a cruel one. I can spend time online and Im already told all the ways I am doing it wrong.

  5. Pure Flix:

    It's Thai, Westerners, Europeans, Aussies - people from all over the world who helped bring these kids to safety, i think there is a world wide appeal which I think will inspire millions across the globe.


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