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wide
1[ wahyd ]
adjective
- having considerable or great extent from side to side; broad:
a wide boulevard.
Antonyms: narrow
- having a certain or specified extent from side to side:
three feet wide.
- of great horizontal extent; extensive; vast; spacious:
the wide plains of the West.
Synonyms: ample, comprehensive, boundless
- of great range or scope; embracing a great number or variety of subjects, cases, etc.:
wide experience.
- open to the full or a great extent; expanded; distended:
to stare with wide eyes.
- apart or remote from a specified point or object:
a guess wide of the truth.
- too far or too much to one side:
a shot wide of the mark.
- Baseball. outside ( def 16 ):
The pitch was wide of the plate.
- full, ample, or roomy, as clothing:
He wore wide, flowing robes.
- Phonetics. lax 1( def 7 ).
- British Slang. shrewd; wary.
adverb
- to the full extent of opening:
Open your mouth wide.
- to the utmost, or fully:
to be wide awake.
- away from or to one side of a point, mark, purpose, or the like; aside; astray:
The shot went wide.
- over an extensive space or region, or far abroad:
scattered far and wide.
- to a great, or relatively great, extent from side to side:
The river runs wide here.
noun
- Cricket. a bowled ball that goes wide of the wicket, and counts as a run for the side batting.
- Archaic. a wide space or expanse.
-wide
2- a combining form of wide, forming from nouns adjectives with the general sense “extending or applying throughout a given space,” as specified by the noun:
communitywide; countrywide; worldwide.
wide
/ waɪd /
adjective
- having a great extent from side to side
- of vast size or scope; spacious or extensive
- postpositive having a specified extent, esp from side to side
two yards wide
- in combination covering or extending throughout
nationwide
- distant or remote from the desired point, mark, etc
your guess is wide of the mark
- (of eyes) opened fully
- loose, full, or roomy
wide trousers
- exhibiting a considerable spread, as between certain limits
a wide variation
adverb
- over an extensive area
to travel far and wide
- to the full extent
he opened the door wide
- far from the desired point, mark, etc
noun
- (in cricket) a bowled ball that is outside the batsman's reach and scores a run for the batting side
- archaic.a wide space or extent
- to the widecompletely
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Derived Forms
- ˈwidely, adverb
- ˈwidish, adjective
- ˈwideness, noun
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Other Words From
- wideness noun
- over·wide adjective
- over·widely adverb
- over·wideness noun
- super·wide adjective
- ultra·wide adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wide1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wide1
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Idioms and Phrases
- all wool and a yard wide
- cut a wide swath
- far and wide
- give a wide berth to
- lay (oneself wide) open
- leave (wide) open
- off (wide of) the mark
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Example Sentences
The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.
Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.
An escort who goes by the name of “Tommy” has experienced a wide variety of female clients.
But instead of just quietly releasing a statement through a publicist, she broadcasted her anger far and wide.
His hunger strike in December 2011 received nation-wide recognition and was one of the sparks that ignited the protest movement.
In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
The streets here are rather wide for an Italian city but would be deemed intolerably narrow in America.
His nose was hooked and rather large, his eyes were blue, bright as steel, and set a trifle wide.
As usual the dinner was recherché, for the Pandemonium chef enjoyed a world-wide reputation.
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Words That Use -wide
What does -wide mean?
The combining form –wide is used like a suffix meaning “wide,” in the sense of “throughout” or “in or to every part of.” It is occasionally used in everyday and technical terms.
The form –wide comes from Old English wīd, meaning “wide.”
Examples of -wide
An example of a word you may have encountered that features –wide is worldwide, “extending or spread throughout the world.”
The world– part of the word here means “the earth or globe.” The form –wide means “throughout.” Worldwide literally means “throughout the earth.”
What are some words that use the combining form –wide?
What are some other forms that –wide may be commonly confused with?
Not every word that ends with the exact letters –wide, such as double-wide, is necessarily using the combining form –wide to denote “throughout.” Learn why double-wide means “twice as wide” at our entry for the word.
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Given the meaning of the combining form –wide, what does storewide literally mean?
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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