[syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
World-wide \World"-wide`\, a.
Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
worldwide
adj 1: spanning or extending throughout the entire world;
"worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic" [syn:
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" [syn: global, planetary,
world(a), worldwide, world-wide]
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, worldwide, world-
wide]