wide
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
How often you will meet it
Rank 826 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,985 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other also: broad wide roadsa wide necktie
- broad in scope or content also: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad across-the-board pay increasesan all-embracing definition
- (used of eyes) fully open or extended also: wide-eyed stared with wide eyes
- very large in expanse or scope also: broad, spacious a broad lawnthe wide plains
- great in degree won by a wide margin
- having ample fabric also: wide-cut, full the current taste for wide trousersa full skirt
adverb
- with or by a broad space stand with legs wide apartran wide around left end
wide in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Gloria's gaze dwelt on the house across the wide street.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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The charges for which they were lynched cover a wide range.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Your pet fast bumpy ones, wide of the wicket, Perhaps look showy, but they are not Cricket.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet!
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1