Hypertext Webster Gateway: "worldwide"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
World-wide \World"-wide`\, a.
Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
--Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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