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world-read

world-read adjective: of a journal or publication, widely or internationally renowned.

Adjective

world-read (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Of a journal or publication, widely or internationally renowned.
    • Then there was the case of the lady who having shuddered at the book in an influential article bearing intermediate headlines of horror, and printed in a world-read journal, wrote to me shortly afterwards that it was her desire to make my acquaintance.1895, Thomas Hardy, The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, Volume 3, page x
    • In a vein of highly original humor this world-read book records a pleasure excursion on the Quaker City to Europe, the Holy Land, and Egypt, in the sixties.1898, Charles Dudley Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (editors), Library of the World's Best Literature...

Questions about world-read

What does world-read mean?
World-read means of a journal or publication, widely or internationally renowned.
What part of speech is world-read?
World-read is an adjective.

Words near world-read in the dictionary

  1. world-endingly
  2. world-famous
  3. world-historical
  4. world-historically
  5. world-old
  6. world-read
  7. world-renowned
  8. world-shaking
  9. world-soul
  10. world-system
  11. world-systems

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