universally

comparative more universally · superlative most universally

1. In a universal manner.

   My experience of the people was that they were universally polite, civil, and clean, and during the whole time I spent in the country, I only saw one drunken man.

   1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 12

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   If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

   2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion

2. By everyone or by the vast majority of people.

   The movie was universally praised by its audience.

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   It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

   1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 1

   Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian.

   2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022