US
: among the best, most talented, or most impressive in the world
an all-world tennis player

Examples of all-world in a Sentence

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His combination of basketball I.Q., all-world defense, veteran experience and all-around ability turned an upstart team into a championship one. Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2025 Guentzel scored into an empty net with 1:19 left to seal it, and the result puts an all-world roster led by McDavid, Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon in a must-win situation Monday against Finland. Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025 Smith’s roster includes former Santa Clara star Jalen Williams (Thunder), all-world athlete Anthony Edwards (Timberwolves) and offensive dynamo Jalen Brunson (Knicks). Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2025 Jalen Brunson is at an all-world level, finishing that game with 42 points and 10 assists. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025 Follow the money, and that’s your path: go for broke in the present, while Curry is still an all-world player. Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025 The issue is that Harrison is gambling that an all-world player who is only 25 has not only peaked, but will regress. Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Feb. 2025 That would have eclipsed the $12.6 million average annual value being paid to Avs teammate Nathan MacKinnon by a wide margin and left the club in an impossible spot with all-world defenseman Cale Makar in need of his own extension by 2027. Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 Cease would cover up a lot of holes with his durability, not to mention his all-world stuff. David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of all-world was in 1928

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“All-world.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-world. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.

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