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world-wide in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. of worldwide scope or applicability
    "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
    cosmopolitan  ecumenical  oecumenical  general  universal  worldwide  world-wide 
  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"
    global  planetary  world  worldwide  world-wide 
  3. spanning or extending throughout the entire world
    "worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic"
    worldwide  world-wide 
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