world-wide

world-wide
    adj 1: 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}]
    2: spanning or extending throughout the entire world; "worldwide
       distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic" [syn: {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}]
    

World-wide \World"-wide`\, a.
   Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
   --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]