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