world-wide
1
2.3
- adjective
- /ˈwɜrldˌwaɪd/
:
mundial
- The organization launched a world-wide campaign to promote environmental awareness.
Then came computers and cell phones and the World Wide Web was cast around the world.
- Then came computers and cell phones and the World Wide Web was cast around the world.
- Kathy, what is going on on the World Wide Web with our reviews?
- Kylie, what is going on on the World Wide Web regarding I've Had It podcast?
- Chris Trump took a moment to include the World Wide Web in his future infrastructure plan.
- AOL was a safe place to enter the World Wide Web.
- All right, Kylie, what's going on on the World Wide Web?
- One area that's spending a lot of time on self sovereign identity is the World Wide Web.
- And they do that exhaustively until they've absorbed the whole of the World Wide Web.
Examples
-
And we've got a world-wide audience now.
-
No lines, 24-hour, world-wide access.
-
Ten years of world-wide marketing rights.
-
As mentioned in that story, the soaring prices of oil is a world-wide problem...
-
The Rutles were now world-wide successes.
-
The Halgate group: A world-wide enterprise bringing the latest technological advances to shipping, construction and engineering.
-
In 1985, when the world-wide sugar consumption was 98 million tons, diabetes affected 30 million people.
Blog text (18) -
In 1985, world-wide tourist expenditures were estimated at $1,800 billion.
Academic text (1994) -
The decree 'On Ecumenism' shows in what way Catholic Christians share in the world-wide ecumenical movement.
Academic text (2013) -
Condemned unanimously in the United Nations, the British Government still insists that it will see the operation through in spite of world-wide criticism and its isolation from its own American allies.
Synonyms
∞
2.7
Relating to the whole world, not just one country
439
4.2
True in all places and for all people
200
2.1
Happening in many countries around the world
31
4.7
Relating to the whole Earth and affecting all countries
3
8.3
That has influence across the world
1
3.7
Affecting the whole planet
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word world-wide comes from the two words world ('the whole earth') and wide ('covering a large area'), so it literally means 'covering the whole earth'. That's why we call something world-wide when it reaches or affects people in many countries.