[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

world-wide \world"-wide`\, a.
   extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.
   --tennyson.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

worldwide
     adj 1: spanning or extending throughout the entire world;
            "worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic"
     2: 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, worlda
     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
see also:
global planetary worlda cosmopolitan ecumenical oecumenical 
general universal 

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