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(adj) oecumenical, cosmopolitan, ecumenical, world-wide, worldwide, general
of worldwide scope or applicability
an issue of cosmopolitan import; the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time- Christopher Morley; universal experience
(noun) universal joint
coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps
(noun) universal proposition
(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
(noun) linguistic universal
(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages