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all over the world

all over the world

244 1.0
In many countries around the world
  • idiom
translation icon : en todo el mundo
  • People come from all over the world to study at this university.
  • people all over the world
  • come from all over the world
  • professionals from all over the world

But right now, all humans all over the world can make babies.

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Examples

  • People travel from all over the world to spend a few hours with penguins.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Countries all over the world still pass on knowledge through pictorial forms.

    Unbreakable (2000)

  • People come from all over the world to study there.

  • I teach all over the world in English, Spanish, French.

  • And a lot of countries all over the world were like that.

  • One is people from all over the world now live in these places.

  • And then schools all over the world would would use these books.

  • We have a team of fifteen hair experts from all over the world.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • They've come from all over the world, literally.

  • Uncle Jack was a concert pianist, and he had traveled all over the world.

    Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

everywhere
vsall over the world
∞ 1.0

In all places

focuses specifically on presence across countries and nations
around the world
vsall over the world
571 1.0

In many different countries on all continents

is the same general sense but uses the key wording
worldwide
vsall over the world
213 2.1

To every part of the world

is the same idea expressed as the longer phrase
internationally
vsall over the world
103 2.9

In more than one country

indicates broader presence across countries rather than just cross‑nation links
globally
vsall over the world
77 3.5

All over the world

uses the key phrase to state the same worldwide idea
world over
vsall over the world
29 3.8

Everywhere in the world

is the same meaning but phrased in the key expression
everyplace
vsall over the world
  • US
1 2.0

In all places

narrows that idea to presence across countries rather than any place
world-wide
vsall over the world
1 2.3

Happening in many countries around the world

is the same sense but given as the key phrase
planetwide
vsall over the world
4.2

Across the whole planet

expresses the same broad coverage using the key wording

Antonyms

nowhere
∞ 1.0

Not in any place where someone can find it

How Widespread

all over the world
244 1.0
international
∞ 2.1
national
∞ 2.0
regional
521 3.5
local
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

all over the world positive

Morphology

all + over + the + world

The meaning 'everywhere in the world' is directly and transparently composed from 'all' (the whole), 'over' (throughout/across) and 'world' (the globe); a B1 learner who knows these words can readily infer the MWE meaning. The construction is cross-linguistically common and follows a straightforward spatial/quantificational pattern, so it is predictable rather than idiomatic.

Etymology

The phrase all over the world may come from the simple picture of a map or globe completely covered with marks or stamps, where the words all and over show the whole world is filled. That's why it now means 'everywhere' or 'in many countries'.