nationwide

Examples

• All

• The report noted that, on a nationwide basis, the demand for golf courses far exceeded the supply.

  Academic text (2008)

• By 1915, the effects of this campaign had spread nationwide, especially to the larger cities.

  Academic text (2008)

• How can that work on a nationwide basis?

• What if this case takes you to a nationwide level?

  The Burial (2023)

• But a nationwide broadcast of the trial itself.

  Hitler's Children (1943)

• Despite much speculation and a nationwide investigation, a body was never found.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Once the footage got out, it sparked a nationwide campaign.

  Shelby Oaks (2025)

• This summer, the Try Guys are embarking on a nationwide live tour.

• There has been such a huge loss of journalists nationwide in terms of layoffs of reporters.

  Adam Conover

• The government enacted a nationwide ban on smoking in public places.

Synonyms

N

national

vsnationwide

∞ 2.0

About a whole country and its people

focuses specifically on physical or geographic spread across the country

A

across the country

vsnationwide

236 1.8

In every part of the country

is the adjectival form used to describe that national spread

A

all over the country

vsnationwide

164 2.1

In many different places across the country

is the neutral adjective used to state the same countrywide idea

A

across the nation

vsnationwide

46 2.6

All over the country

is the same meaning but expressed as a single-word adjective

C

countrywide

vsnationwide

2 3.5

Happening across the whole country

is the same sense presented as a different single-word form

How Widespread

global

∞ 2.7

international

∞ 2.1

nationwide

265 3.0

regional

521 3.5

local

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology