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Narrator: Today's word is worldwide — an adjective and adverb, pronounced wurld-WIDE, IPA /ˌwɜːld.ˈwaɪd/.
Narrator: Worldwide means existing or happening throughout the whole world — all over the earth, across every country.
Narrator: Plain English: if something is worldwide, it's everywhere on the planet — worldwide fame, shipped worldwide, a worldwide event.
Narrator: It's a compound of world and wide — literally, as wide as the world, spread across the entire globe.
Narrator: It became especially common in the modern age of global trade, travel, and communication, when reach truly went planet-wide.
Narrator: As an adjective it describes the thing — a worldwide network; as an adverb it describes the action — sold worldwide.
Narrator: It carries a sense of vast scale and ambition — worldwide reach sounds bigger and grander than merely national.
Narrator: The register is neutral and common, especially in business, media, shipping, and anything global in scope.
Narrator: Worldwide is reach without borders — one word for a thing that stretches clean across the whole earth.
Speaker A: Their little online shop ships worldwide now — orders coming in from every corner of the globe. Properly worldwide.
Speaker B: That's brilliant. Going worldwide is a huge step. A worldwide customer base means you never really close.
Speaker A: Exactly. And the brand's getting worldwide recognition too — people know it everywhere now.
Speaker B: Lovely use — worldwide recognition, a worldwide reputation. It signals real global scale.
Speaker A: It works as both adjective and adverb, doesn't it? Worldwide fame, but also sold worldwide.
Speaker B: Right. Worldwide fame describes the fame; sold worldwide describes how it's sold. Same word, two jobs.
Speaker A: What's the difference between worldwide and global, then?
Speaker B: Very close — almost interchangeable. Worldwide stresses reaching every part of the world. Global can also mean overall or whole-system, as in a global setting in software. For reach, they're twins.
Speaker A: So for spreading across the planet, both work.
Speaker B: They do. And it's one word, no hyphen — W-O-R-L-D-W-I-D-E, world plus wide joined together.
Speaker B: Let's look at how worldwide works in AI prompts. As a word for global reach it's great for shipping, localisation, and scale features.
Speaker A: Worldwide as global reach — the AI builds for every country?
Speaker B: Exactly. It sets a planet-wide scope. First prompt — a shipping system:
Prompt: Build a checkout that ships worldwide. Let customers choose any country, calculate worldwide shipping costs, and show clear delivery times for worldwide orders at the basket.
Speaker B: Worldwide tells the AI to handle every country, not just one — true global delivery.
Speaker A: The shipping system is clear. What about localisation?
Speaker B: Here:
Prompt: Make my app ready for a worldwide audience. Support multiple languages and currencies, detect each visitor's region, and adapt prices and dates for a worldwide user base.
Speaker A: A worldwide-ready app — practical. For a database?
Speaker B: Try this:
Prompt: Design a database for a worldwide store. Store each product's prices in many currencies, link stock to warehouses across the world, and index the country so worldwide orders route fast.
Speaker A: Worldwide store data — tidy. For a dashboard?
Speaker B: Like this:
Prompt: Build a dashboard showing worldwide sales. Map orders across the world, total revenue worldwide at the top, and let me drill into any region to compare it with the worldwide figure.
Speaker A: Worldwide sales mapped — insightful. And a launch page?
Speaker B: Here:
Prompt: Build a launch page announcing a worldwide release. Show a countdown in the visitor's own time zone, list the worldwide launch regions, and make clear the product is available worldwide on day one.
Speaker A: A worldwide launch page — exciting.
Speaker B: One word for global reach. Use worldwide in a prompt and the AI builds planet-wide, multi-country features around it.
Worldwide — meaning in Arabic & definition More W courses GL Dictionary