world over
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3.8
- idiom
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en todo el mundo
- The rules are the same for everyone the world over.
- people the world over
OK, you know for a fact that garment workers the world over do not get paid enough.
- OK, you know for a fact that garment workers the world over do not get paid enough.
- Because you know, you're global, you're known the world over.
- And what, what I have perceived really is that it's the same the whole world over.
- Putin's war in Ukraine has destabilised energy markets and supply chains the world over.
- Just an incredible inspiration to fashion designers and fashion professionals, students and wannabes the world over.
- That was modern day big pharma pandemic drug screwing the populace, screwing taxpayers, screwing governments the world over.
- An interview taking place at perhaps the most critical time in this conflict, a conflict with implications the world over.
- And, and the idea that, you know, men have been so powerful that they have like created this whole cultural pattern that tends to be repeated the whole world over.
- Second part of it is that Indians have made a lot of space in this country and world over.
- And I think that that's how what we saw happen in the world over the last few years is we all had a very uniquely similar experience as a species.
Examples
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So the pattern continued the world over: some areas hit hard, others not.
Fiction book (1999) -
And may we all, citizens the world over, see these events through.
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From these islands have come music, poetry, dance, and art that are known the world over.
Academic text (2004) -
People the world over would have contempt for the United States and its leaders.
Fiction book (1990) -
To this day, it is practiced in Chinese communities the world over.
Academic text (1993) -
It is the national story of success that has made us known the world over as the land of opportunity.
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Governments the world over are descending into madness.
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Green political thought, disdaining anthropocentrism, is concerned with the preservation of nature the world over.
Academic text (2000) -
Biologists the world over in generations have been struggling to give a full account of how inanimate matter can ultimately yield living systems.
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The same challenges impact people the world over.
Synonyms
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1.0
In all places
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1.0
In many different countries on all continents
244
1.0
In many countries around the world
213
2.1
To every part of the world
77
3.5
All over the world
1
2.3
Happening in many countries around the world
Across the whole planet
Antonyms
How Widely
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'in all parts of the world' is directly derived from combining 'world' (the planet/its parts) with 'over' used to mean 'throughout' or 'across'. This compositional pattern (X + over = throughout X) is predictable and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the two words should be able to infer the MWE meaning despite its slightly formal register.
Etymology
World over comes from a simple image: imagine a blanket thrown over the whole world, covering every place. That's why world over means 'everywhere'.