different between worldwide vs worldwise
worldwide
English
Etymology
From world +? -wide.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??ldwa?d/, /?w??ld?wa?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?ld?wa?d/, /?w?ld?wa?d/
- Hyphenation: world?wide
Adjective
worldwide (comparative more worldwide, superlative most worldwide)
- Spanning the world; global.
Alternative forms
- world-wide
Derived terms
- World Wide Web
Translations
Adverb
worldwide (not comparable)
- Throughout the world.
- Synonyms: around the world, globally, internationally
Translations
worldwide From the web:
- what worldwide events happened in 2011
- what worldwide holiday is today
- what worldwide remembrance is today
- what worldwide celebration is recognized today
- what worldwide day is it today
- what worldwide events happened in 2012
- what world events happened in 2011
- what major world events happened in 2011
worldwise
English
Alternative forms
- world-wise
Etymology
From Middle English worldwis, from Old English woruldw?s (“worldwise, worldly-wise, learned”), equivalent to world +? wise.
Adjective
worldwise (comparative more worldwise, superlative most worldwise)
- Knowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.
- 1671, Daniel Cable (translator), Of Natural and Supernatural Things by Basilius Valentinus, London: Moses Pitt, Chapter 3, p. 50,[1]
- Those who are highly conceited, illuminated, and world-wise, hate, envy, scandalize, defame and persecute this Mystery to the utmost Rind, or innermost Kernel, which hath its beginning out of the Center […]
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1909, Chapter 12, p. 141,[2]
- An older and more world-wise man might have been puzzled by her varying moods, her sudden prejudices, her quick resentment at all constraint and authority.
- 1919, Saki, “The Purple of the Balkan Kings” in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, London: John Lane, p. 281,[3]
- Luttpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat on a small, obtrusive, self-important scale, sat in his favoured café in the world-wise Habsburg capital, confronted with the Neue Freie Presse and the cup of cream-topped coffee and attendant glass of water that a sleek-headed piccolo had just brought him.
- 1994, U.S. News & World Report,
- Experience that’s worldwide and worldwise. It’s a difference that’s helped us make friends with a world full of travelers.
- 1671, Daniel Cable (translator), Of Natural and Supernatural Things by Basilius Valentinus, London: Moses Pitt, Chapter 3, p. 50,[1]
Derived terms
- worldwisdom
worldwise From the web:
- what worldwide events happened in 2011
- what worldwide holiday is today
- what worldwide remembrance is today
- what worldwide celebration is recognized today
- what worldwide day is it today
- what worldwide events happened in 2012
- what's worldwide shipping
- world wide web
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