World-wide

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  World-wide \World"-wide`\, a.
     Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
     --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  worldwide
       adj 1: spanning or extending throughout the entire world;
              "worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic"
       2: involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in
          scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither
          national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis";
          "of worldwide significance" [syn: {global}, {planetary}, {world(a)}]
       3: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of
          cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and
          ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley;
          "universal experience" [syn: {cosmopolitan}, {ecumenical},
           {oecumenical}, {general}, {universal}]