worldwide

«worldwide» in Mova's school dictionary: happening or found in all parts of the world — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (worldwide); adverb (worldwide)

meaning for a pupil

1) Worldwide means happening or found in all parts of the world. tree →

2) As an adverb, worldwide means all over the world: «sold worldwide». tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, things like climate change, pandemics and the internet are worldwide. In everyday life a worldwide shop delivers to any country. Phrases: «worldwide famous», «a worldwide problem», «known worldwide», «the World Wide Web» (written as three words).

examples

• Football is popular worldwide. tree →
• The flu spread worldwide in a few months. tree →
• The book sold millions of copies worldwide. tree →
• Plastic in the oceans is a worldwide problem. tree →
• The World Wide Web lets people share pages worldwide. tree →
• This company has shops worldwide. tree →
• Our school took part in a worldwide day of reading. tree →

note

One word, no hyphen (sometimes «world-wide» in older writing). Same form for adjective and adverb. Similar: global, international, all over the world.

In the corpora

• Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.
• Edward Jenner made the first vaccine in 1796 from cowpox, and smallpox was declared wiped out worldwide in 1980.
• All sharks together make only about 70 unprovoked bites on people a year worldwide, reported.
• The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network.
• Smallpox was wiped out worldwide in 1980.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «worldwide» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.