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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. John Olson:

    Our goal is to make art and photography available to the world's blind population, there are 285 million blind and sight impaired world-wide. One person goes blind in the U.S. every 11 minutes. So our goal is to make this available at every museum, every science center, every institution, first in this country and then beyond.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Mark Molinari:

    Criminal mischief, swastikas, property damage are no different to us than robberies and assaults. They're all victimizing an entire community -- sometimes a world-wide community -- so not being able to get closure for that community is difficult for all of us here, our cases don't just victimize the victim. They victimize a group.


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