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wide
[wahyd] 
adjective, wid⋅er, wid⋅est, adverb, noun –adjective
| 1. | having considerable or great extent from side to side; broad: a wide boulevard. |
| 2. | having a certain or specified extent from side to side: three feet wide. |
| 3. | of great horizontal extent; extensive; vast; spacious: the wide plains of the West. |
| 4. | of great range or scope; embracing a great number or variety of subjects, cases, etc.: wide experience. |
| 5. | open to the full or a great extent; expanded; distended: to stare with wide eyes. |
| 6. | apart or remote from a specified point or object: a guess wide of the truth. |
| 7. | too far or too much to one side: a shot wide of the mark. |
| 8. | Baseball. outside (def. 16): The pitch was wide of the plate. |
| 9. | full, ample, or roomy, as clothing: He wore wide, flowing robes. |
| 10. | Phonetics. lax (def. 7). |
| 11. | British Slang. shrewd; wary. |
–adverb
| 12. | to the full extent of opening: Open your mouth wide. |
| 13. | to the utmost, or fully: to be wide awake. |
| 14. | away from or to one side of a point, mark, purpose, or the like; aside; astray: The shot went wide. |
| 15. | over an extensive space or region, or far abroad: scattered far and wide. |
| 16. | to a great, or relatively great, extent from side to side: The river runs wide here. |
–noun
| 17. | Cricket. a bowled ball that goes wide of the wicket, and counts as a run for the side batting. |
| 18. | Archaic. a wide space or expanse. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE wīd; c. D wijd, G weit, ON vīthr
bef. 900; ME; OE wīd; c. D wijd, G weit, ON vīthr
Related forms:
wideness, noun
Synonyms:
1. Wide, broad refer to dimensions. They are often interchangeable, but wide especially applies to things of which the length is much greater than the width: a wide road, piece of ribbon. Broad is more emphatic, and applies to things of considerable or great width, breadth, or extent, esp. to surfaces extending laterally: a broad valley. 3. boundless; comprehensive; ample.
1. Wide, broad refer to dimensions. They are often interchangeable, but wide especially applies to things of which the length is much greater than the width: a wide road, piece of ribbon. Broad is more emphatic, and applies to things of considerable or great width, breadth, or extent, esp. to surfaces extending laterally: a broad valley. 3. boundless; comprehensive; ample.
Antonyms:
1. narrow.
1. narrow.
-wide
| 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. |
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| wide (wīd) adj. wid·er, wid·est
A ball bowled outside of the batsman's reach, counting as a run for the batting team in cricket. [Middle English, from Old English wīd; see wi- in Indo-European roots.] wide'ly adv., wide'ness n., wid'ish adj. |
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Wide
Wide\, a. (Stock Exchanges) Having or showing a wide difference between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply, etc.; as, a wide opening; wide prices, where the prices bid and asked differ by several points.Wide
Wide\ (w[imac]d), a. [Compar. Wider (-[~e]r); superl. Widest.] [OE. wid, wyde, AS. w[=i]d; akin to OFries. & OS. w[=i]d, D. wijd, G. weit, OHG. w[=i]t, Icel. v[=i][eth]r, Sw. & Dan. vid; of uncertain origin.]1. Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry. The chambers and the stables weren wyde. --Chaucer. Wide is the gate . . . that leadeth to destruction. --Matt. vii. 18. 2. Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference. "This wyde world." --Chaucer. For sceptered cynics earth were far too wide a den. --Byron. When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours. --Bryant. 3. Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding. Men of strongest head and widest culture. --M. Arnold. 4. Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide. 5. Remote; distant; far. The contrary being so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God. --Hammond. 6. Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like. "Our wide expositors." --Milton. It is far wide that the people have such judgments. --Latimer. How wide is all this long pretense ! --Herbert. 7. On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. --Spenser. I was but two bows wide. --Massinger. 8. (Phon.) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of [=e] ([=e]ve) is [i^] ([i^]ll); of [=a] ([=a]te) is [e^] ([e^]nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 13-15. Note: Wide is often prefixed to words, esp. to participles and participial adjectives, to form self-explaining compounds; as, wide-beaming, wide-branched, wide-chopped, wide-echoing, wide-extended, wide-mouthed, wide-spread, wide-spreading, and the like. Far and wide. See under Far. Wide gauge. See the Note under Cauge, 6.Wide
Wide\, adv. [As. w[imac]de.]1. To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide. [I] went wyde in this world, wonders to hear. --Piers Plowman. 2. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening. --Shak. 3. So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.Wide
Wide\, n. 1. That which is wide; wide space; width; extent. "The waste wide of that abyss." --Tennyson. 2. That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.
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Language Translation for : wide
Spanish:
ancho, grande,
German:
breit, weit,
Japanese:
幅の広い
wide
O.E. wid, from P.Gmc. *widas (cf. O.S., O.Fris. wid, O.N. viðr, Du. wijd, O.H.G. wit, Ger. weit), perhaps from PIE *wi-ito-, from base *wi- "apart, away." Wide open "unguarded, exposed to attack" (1915) originally was in boxing, etc. Wide awake (adj.) is first recorded 1818; fig. sense of "alert, knowing" is attested from 1833. Widespread is recorded from 1705.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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wide
In addition to the idioms beginning with wide, also see 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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