whole wide world en · NOUN
Meanings
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(emphatic) The entire world; everybody, everywhere.
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.
2014, Lee Child, Personal, page 386: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?
1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| the whole wide world | canonical | lexicographic |
Translations (9)
sh бије̑лӣ свије̑т (entire world) · sh bijȇlī svijȇt (entire world) · fr monde entier (entire world) · sh бе̑лӣ све̑т (entire world) · es mundo mundial (entire world) · sh bȇlī svȇt (entire world) · cmn 全世界 (entire world) · fi koko maailma (entire world) · pt mundo inteiro (entire world)