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whole wide world

whole wide world noun: the entire world; everybody, everywhere.

Noun

the whole wide world

  1. (emphatic) The entire world; everybody, everywhere.
    • How could one doubt these things, when Pope and priest and scholar and King were all united in believing them, with no single voice of question in the whole wide world?1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
    • No one in the whole wide world is going to give a shit. Not one single person. And they won't even know anyway. Tomorrow you'll be in Syria or Egypt or Guantanamo Bay, even. We do things differently now.2014, Lee Child, Personal, page 386

Questions about whole wide world

What does whole wide world mean?
Whole wide world means the entire world; everybody, everywhere.
What part of speech is whole wide world?
Whole wide world is a noun.

Words near whole wide world in the dictionary

  1. whole tone
  2. whole tones
  3. whole undern
  4. whole wheat bread
  5. whole wheat breads
  6. whole wide world
  7. whole-ass
  8. whole-assed
  9. whole-asses
  10. whole-assing
  11. whole-blood coagulation time

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