widths

[width, witth or, often, with]

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noun

extent from side to side; breadth; wideness.

a piece of the full wideness, as of cloth.

Origin:
1620–30; wide + -th¹, modeled on breadth, etc.

Can be confused: width, with.

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Widths is always a great word to know.

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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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width

1627, formed on model of breadth, and replacing wideness. Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word."

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