world : Idioms & Phrases

• a wonder to see; something admirable or surprising to see. Obs.

  O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. Shak.

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• all that exists; all that is possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not save him.

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• noun the circumstances and ideas of the present age
  contemporary world; present times; modern times.
  
  • in modern times like these

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• noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
  Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; Last Day; Last Judgement.
  
• noun an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
  doomsday; day of reckoning; doom.
  
  • everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
  • that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world

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Fair"-world` noun

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1. State of prosperity. Obs.

   They think it was never fair-world with them since. Milton.

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• noun something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
  fantasy world; fairyland.
  

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• noun a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
  World War 1; War to End War; Great War; First World War.
  

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• adverb under any circumstances
  for love or money; for anything; for any price.
  
  • she wouldn't give up her pets for love or money

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• . (a) Precisely; exactly. (b) For any consideration.
• wholly; exactly. "Whose posy was, for all the world, like cutlers' poetry." Shak.

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• the antediluvian world. R. Southey.

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• noun anti-communist countries collectively
  

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• noun a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I
  IWW; I.W.W..
  

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• noun a worldly-wise person
  sophisticate.
  

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• noun the circumstances and ideas of the present age
  contemporary world; present times; modern times.
  
  • in modern times like these

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• noun the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
  occident; western hemisphere.
  

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• the land of the Western Hemisphere; so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.

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• noun any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
  anteater.
  

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• noun a variety of beaver found in almost all areas of North America except Florida
  Castor canadensis.
  

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• noun any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black
  blackbird.
  

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• noun birds having a chattering call
  chat.
  

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• noun any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America
  coral snake; harlequin-snake.
  

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• noun large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
  flycatcher; tyrant flycatcher; tyrant bird.
  

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• noun American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer
  yellowbird; goldfinch; Spinus tristis.
  

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• noun a North American jay
  

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• noun of Canada and northeastern United States
  Mustela rixosa.
  

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• noun a form of leishmaniasis endemic in Mexico and Central American and South America; sores are limited to the skin and mucosa
  nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; leishmaniasis americana; American leishmaniasis.
  

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• noun hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails
  platyrrhinian; platyrrhine.
  

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• noun a variety of rodent
  

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• noun from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
  Lampris guttatus.
  

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• noun American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow
  American oriole; oriole.
  

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• noun arboreal porcupine
  

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• noun sparrow-like North American finches
  

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• noun a tapir found in South America and Central America
  Tapirus terrestris.
  

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• noun large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures
  cathartid.
  

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• noun small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song
  wood warbler.
  

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• noun the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas
  

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• noun a European variety of beaver
  Castor fiber.
  

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• noun any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
  buffalo.
  

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• noun songbirds having a chattering call
  chat.
  

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• noun a coot found in Eurasia
  Fulica atra.
  

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• noun any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia
  coral snake.
  

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• noun small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
  ecrevisse.
  

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• noun any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
  true flycatcher; flycatcher.
  

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• noun medium-sized hop hornbeam of southern Europe and Asia Minor
  Ostrya carpinifolia.
  

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• noun a European jay
  

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• noun of Europe
  Mustela nivalis.
  

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• noun leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions
  oriental sore; Delhi boil; tropical sore; cutaneous leishmaniasis; Aleppo boil.
  

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• noun Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas
  mistletoe; Viscum album.
  

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• noun of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
  catarrhine.
  

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• noun mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black
  oriole.
  

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• noun terrestrial porcupine
  

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• noun small game bird with a rounded body and small tail
  

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• noun common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young are born naked and helpless
  Oryctolagus cuniculus; European rabbit.
  

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• noun small Old World songbird with a reddish breast
  robin redbreast; Erithacus rubecola; robin; redbreast.
  

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• noun European scops owl
  Otus scops.
  

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• noun any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia
  

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• noun small active brownish or greyish Old World birds
  true warbler.
  

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• noun similar to American white pelican
  Pelecanus onocrotalus.
  

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• noun predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world
  Taxus baccata; English yew.
  

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• adjective satellite characteristic of former times especially in Europe
  
  • an old-world cottage

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• noun something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
  fantasy world; fairyland.
  

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• noun the practical world as opposed to the academic world
  real life.
  
  • a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world

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• noun a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
  World War 2; Second World War.
  

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• noun impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe
  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  

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• noun impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe
  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  

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• . See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

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• noun any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide
  
  • science has emptied the spirit world of its former inhabitants

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• noun a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit
  spiritual domain; unseen.
  

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• noun the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen
  the way of the world.
  
  • the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world
  • she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil
  • he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world

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• noun the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen
  the way of the world.
  
  • the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world
  • she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil
  • he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world

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• verb esteem very highly
  
  • She thinks the world of her adviser

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• noun underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
  

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• to be married. Obs. "Thus goes every one to the world but I . . . ; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!" Shak.

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• . (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; in distinction from the underworld.

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• noun a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando
  

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• noun affairs between nations
  international affairs.
  
  • you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television

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• noun a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; IBRD.
  

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• noun a council with representatives from different nations
  

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• noun an ecumenical organization of Protestant and eastern churches; intended to promote unity and cooperation in religious and secular matters
  

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• noun a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations
  International Court of Justice.
  

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• noun a soccer tournament held every four years between national soccer teams to determine a world champion
  

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• noun a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
  WHO.
  

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• noun the United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data
  WMO.
  

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• noun an international alliance involving many different countries
  international organization; world organisation; global organization; international organisation.
  

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• noun an international alliance involving many different countries
  international organization; world organisation; global organization; international organisation.
  

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• noun a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
  power; superpower; great power; major power.
  

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• noun (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world
  

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• noun the best record in the whole world
  

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• noun series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship
  
  • we watched the World Series on TV

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• noun a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
  Tigers; LTTE; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; World Tamil Association; Tamil Tigers.
  
  • the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war

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• noun a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
  Tigers; LTTE; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; World Tamil Association; Tamil Tigers.
  
  • the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war

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• noun twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City; built 1368 feet tall in 1970 to 1973; destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001
  twin towers; WTC.
  

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• noun an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade
  WTO.
  

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• noun someone who travels widely and often
  globetrotter.
  

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• noun a comprehensive view of the world and human life
  Weltanschauung.
  

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• noun a war in which the major nations of the world are involved
  

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• noun a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
  World War 1; War to End War; Great War; First World War.
  

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• noun a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
  World War 2; Second World War.
  

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• noun a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
  World War 1; War to End War; Great War; First World War.
  

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• noun a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
  World War 2; Second World War.
  

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• noun computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
  web; WWW.
  

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• eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end.

  Throughout all ages, world without end. Eph. iii. 21.

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• the end, or most distant part, of the world; the remotest regions.

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• noun a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  king; queen.
  

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• adjective satellite ranking above all others
  foremost; first.
  
  • was first in her class
  • the foremost figure among marine artists
  • the top graduate

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• adjective satellite sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
  earthshaking; world-shaking.
  
  • earthshaking proposals
  • the contest was no world-shaking affair
  • the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering

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• adjective satellite sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
  earthshaking; world-shaking.
  
  • earthshaking proposals
  • the contest was no world-shaking affair
  • the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering

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• noun sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
  Weltschmerz.
  

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• adjective satellite tired of the world
  bored.
  
  • bored with life
  • strolled through the museum with a bored air

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• adjective satellite involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
  worldwide; planetary; global; world.
  
  • global war
  • global monetary policy
  • neither national nor continental but planetary
  • a world crisis
  • of worldwide significance
• adjective satellite spanning or extending throughout the entire world
  worldwide.
  
  • worldwide distribution
  • a worldwide epidemic
• adjective satellite of worldwide scope or applicability
  worldwide; cosmopolitan; universal; ecumenical; general; oecumenical.
  
  • an issue of cosmopolitan import
  • the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley
  • universal experience

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World"-wide` adjective

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1. Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.

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