ubiquitous

English edit

WOTD – 16 June 2006

Etymology edit

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”), from ubi (“where”).

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːˈbɪkwətəs/
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(General American) IPA^(key): /juˈbɪkwɪtəs/
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Rhymes: -ɪkwɪtəs
Hyphenation: ubi‧quit‧ous

Adjective edit

ubiquitous (not comparable)

Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
Synonym: omnipresent

To Christians, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims, God is ubiquitous.
Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
Synonym: ever-present
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “’’Moby Dick’’, Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
  One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
Widespread; very prevalent.
Synonyms: common, pervasive

Quotations edit

1927–1929 – Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V (XII) The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

Synonyms edit

see also Thesaurus:widespread

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Translations edit

being everywhere

Afrikaans: alomteenwoordig
Bulgarian: повсеместен (bg) (povsemesten)
Catalan: ubic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無處不在的／无处不在的 (zh) (wúchùbùzài de), 無所不在的／无所不在的 (zh) (wúsuǒbùzài de)
Czech: všudypřítomný (cs)
Danish: allestedsnærværende (da)
Dutch: alomtegenwoordig (nl), overal aanwezig
Finnish: kaikkialla läsnä oleva, ubiikki (fi), yleisesti levinnyt
French: ubiquiste (fr), ubiquitaire (fr), omniprésent (fr)
Galician: ubicuo
Georgian: ყველგან არსებული (q̇velgan arsebuli), გავრცელებული (gavrcelebuli), ყველგან მყოფი (q̇velgan mq̇opi)
German: allgegenwärtig (de), überall vorhanden, überall verbreitet, ubiquitär (de) (rare)
Greek: πανταχού παρών (pantachoú parón)
Hungarian: mindenütt jelen levő
Italian: ubiquitario (it), onnipresente (it)
Japanese: 遍在する (ja) (へんざいする, henzai suru)
Latin: ubique (la), ens ubique, omnipraesens, ens undique
Macedonian: сепри́сутен (seprísuten)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: allestedsnærværende

Nynorsk: allstadnærværande
Occitan: ubic, ubiquïsta, ubiquïtari, omnipresent
Persian: همه جا‎ (fa) (hame jâ)
Polish: wszędobylski, wszechobecny (pl)
Portuguese: ubíquo (pt), omnipresente (pt), onipresente (pt)
Romanian: ubicuu, omniprezent (ro)
Russian: вездесу́щий (ru) (vezdesúščij)
Spanish: ubicuo (es)
Swedish: allestädes närvarande, allmänt utbredd
Turkish: aynı zamanda her yerde bulunan, hâzır ve nâzır
Ukrainian: повсю́дний (povsjúdnyj)
Urdu: ^{(please verify)} ہر جگا‎ (har jagā)

seeming to appear everywhere at the same time

Afrikaans: alomteenwoordig
Bulgarian: вездесъщ (bg) (vezdesǎšt)
Catalan: ubic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無處不在的／无处不在的 (zh) (wúchùbùzài de), 無所不在的／无所不在的 (zh) (wúsuǒbùzài de)
Czech: všudypřítomný (cs)
Dutch: alomtegenwoordig (nl)
Finnish: kaikkialla läsnä oleva, ubiikki (fi)
French: ubiquiste (fr), ubiquitaire (fr)
German: allgegenwärtig (de), überall vorhanden
Greek: πανταχού παρών (pantachoú parón)
Italian: ubiquitario (it)
Latin: ubiquitus, visus simul ubique
Macedonian: сепри́сутен (seprísuten)
Occitan: ubic, ubiquïtari
Polish: wszechobecny (pl)
Portuguese: ubíquo (pt)
Russian: вездесу́щий (ru) (vezdesúščij)
Spanish: ubicuo (es), común (es)
Swedish: (de är, man ser dem) överallt (sv)
Turkish: hâzır ve nâzır
Ukrainian: всюдису́щий (vsjudysúščyj), всепрису́тній (vseprysútnij)

widespread — see widespread