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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#m1)

2) As an adverb, worldwide means all over the world: «sold worldwide». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#x1)
- The flu spread worldwide in a few months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#x2)
- The book sold millions of copies worldwide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#x3)
- Plastic in the oceans is a worldwide problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#x4)
- The World Wide Web lets people share pages worldwide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#x5)
- This company has shops worldwide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#x6)
- Our school took part in a worldwide day of reading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/9/)
- [Edward Jenner made the first vaccine in 1796 from cowpox, and smallpox was declared wiped out worldwide in 1980.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines/9/)
- [All sharks together make only about 70 unprovoked bites on people a year worldwide, reported.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/10/)
- [The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/12/)
- [Smallpox was wiped out worldwide in 1980.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «worldwide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worldwide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.