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world-wide

world-wide is the alternative form of worldwide.

Meaning of worldwide

Adjective

worldwide (comparative more worldwide, superlative most worldwide)

  1. Spanning the world; global.
    • A large meteorite impact would cause worldwide extinction of life.

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Forms of world-wide

Adjective
comparativemore world-wide
superlativemost world-wide
Adverb
comparativemore world-wide
superlativemost world-wide

Questions about world-wide

What is world-wide the alternative form of?
World-wide is the alternative form of worldwide.

Words near world-wide in the dictionary

  1. world-wearied
  2. world-wearier
  3. world-weariest
  4. world-weariness
  5. world-weary
  6. world-wide
  7. world-wise
  8. worldbeat
  9. worldbeater
  10. worldbeaters
  11. worldbeating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: world-wide (page history and authors); worldwide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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