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whole wide world

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The entire world; everybody, everywhere.

emphatic

Equivalents

Españolmundo mundial
Portuguêsmundo inteiro

Examples

“How could one doubt⟳ these things, when Pope and priest and scholar and King were all united in believing them, with no single voice of question⟳ in the whole wide world?”
“No one in the whole wide world is going to give⟳ a shit. Not one single person. And they won't even know⟳ anyway. Tomorrow you'll be in Syria or Egypt or Guantanamo Bay, even. We do things differently now.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

whole-blood coagulation time whole-genome duplication Whole-hearted Whole-heartedly whole-hogger whole-hoggism

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