Meanings
- emphaticThe entire world; everybody, everywhere.
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 Nigel1 more example
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
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 全世界
- 全世界 (quánshìjiè)entire world
Finnish koko maailma
- koko maailmaentire world
French monde entier
- monde entierentire world
Portuguese mundo inteiro
- mundo inteiroentire world
Spanish mundo mundial
- mundo mundialentire world
Cite this entry
whole wide world. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whole%20wide%20world
“whole wide world.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whole%20wide%20world. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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