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Worldwide

adjective

Spanning or extending throughout the entire world. Synonym: world-wide. "A worldwide epidemic"

Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope. Synonyms: global, planetary, world, world-wide. "Global monetary policy" , "Neither national nor continental but planetary" , "A world crisis" , "Of worldwide significance"

Of worldwide scope or applicability. Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide. "The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time" , "Universal experience"

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"Worldwide" Quotes from Famous Books

... energy of Glasgow? What so conducive to health and cleanliness (and cleanliness is akin to godliness) as a pure and perfect supply of water such as you now possess; and you have great reason to be grateful for this beneficent application of science and art. With a worldwide celebrity for your waterworks, you have cause also to be proud of your chemical works, and that famous chimney of St. Rollox, one of the loftiest structures in the world. There are few cities more highly favoured than this. Would not Captain Shaw be glad if, in London, he had the ...

— Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects • John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness

... thinker as well as a careful observer. His lucid remarks gives us a deep insight into primitive conditions when love had hardly yet begun to germinate. What a worldwide difference between this languid Kaffir wooer, hardly caring whether he gets this girl or another, and the modern lover who thinks life not worth living, unless he can gain the love of his chosen one. In all the literature on the subject, I have been able to find ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

Words linked to "Worldwide" : comprehensive, intercontinental, international