world-historical en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌwəːldhɪˈstɒɹɪkl̩/ (UK)
Etymology
From world + historical, perhaps after earlier German weltgeschichtlich [from 19th c.]
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to world history; globally significant.
It is hard to overstate the world-historical impact of this transformation.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 124:The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China was a world-historical event.
2005, Arif Dirlik, Marxism in the Chinese Revolution: