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width

  [width, witth or, often, with]
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–noun
1. extent from side to side; breadth; wideness.
2. a piece of the full wideness, as of cloth.
Origin:
1620–30; wide + -th 1 , modeled on breadth, etc.
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width   (wĭdth, wĭth, wĭtth)   
n.  

  1. The state, quality, or fact of being wide.

  2. The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.

  3. A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension or its crosswise grain, especially a piece of fabric measured from selvage to selvage.


[wide + -th2.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

width 
1627, formed on model of breadth, and replacing wideness. Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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