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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
width       [width, witth or, often, with] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.extent from side to side; breadth; wideness.
2.a piece of the full wideness, as of cloth.

[Origin: 1620–30; wide + -th1, modeled on breadth, etc.]
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
width       (wĭdth, wĭth, wĭtth)  Pronunciation Key 
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.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
width 
1627, formed on model of breadth, and replacing wideness. Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word."

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width

noun
the extent of something from side to side 

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Width

Width\, n. [From Wide.] The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

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