universally

adv

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.”

   “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: […] .”

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

   “The movie was universally praised by its audience.”

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

   “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.”