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say it: WURL-dwahyd
worldwide is an adjective meaning "spanning or extending throughout the entire world". It carries 3 recorded senses.
spanning or extending throughout the entire world
“worldwide distribution”
“a worldwide epidemic”
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”
of worldwide scope or applicability
“an issue of cosmopolitan import”
“the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time”
“universal experience”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for worldwide come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.