Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being wide; breadth; width.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side.
- noun Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
wide . - noun Large
extent orexpanse ;breadth ,broadness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unusual largeness in size or extent or number
- noun the property of being wide; having great width
Etymologies
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Examples
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The instruments are an integrated part of this scenario while the cross-section handlebar indicates how their wideness is the key to handling this type of ride.
Top Speed 2009
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Wherefore, probably, he practiced his iron inhibition and preached it to others, and preferred women of his own type, who could shake free of this bestial and regrettable ancestral line and by discipline and control emphasize the wideness of the gulf that separated them from what their dim forbears had been.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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But it does demand that the question be opened so the traditional interpretations of those texts can be reconsidered -- alongside the other often-marginalized texts that argue for a wideness in God's mercy and a compassion in God's justice.
Brian D. McLaren: Will 'Love Wins' Win? We're Early In The First Inning ... Brian D. McLaren 2011
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There is a wideness in the analog sound, which is, in some ways, clumsy.
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A fairly well-read man himself, for a sea-adventurer, he glimpsed a wideness of range and catholicity of taste that were beyond him.
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This means attending to them in prayer and lifting them to the Lord, the wideness of whose mercy makes a mockery of physical distance.
Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson: A Prayer For Japan Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson 2011
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My clearest impression was one of amazement at the size of everything: the wideness of the streets, the size of the homes, the manicured lawns, the sheer number of cars and people and freeways.
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But it does demand that the question be opened so the traditional interpretations of those texts can be reconsidered -- alongside the other often-marginalized texts that argue for a wideness in God's mercy and a compassion in God's justice.
Brian D. McLaren: Will 'Love Wins' Win? We're Early In The First Inning ... Brian D. McLaren 2011
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This means attending to them in prayer and lifting them to the Lord, the wideness of whose mercy makes a mockery of physical distance.â¨â¨
Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson: A Prayer For Japan Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson 2011
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Wherefore, probably, he practised his iron inhibition and preached it to others, and preferred women of his own type, who could shake free of this bestial and regrettable ancestral line and by discipline and control emphasize the wideness of the gulf that separated them from what their dim forbears had been.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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