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wideness

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wide  (wd)
adj. wid·er, wid·est
1.
a. Having a specified extent from side to side: a ribbon two inches wide.
b. Extending over a great distance from side to side; broad: a wide road; a wide necktie.
2. Having great extent or range; including much or many: a wide selection; granting wide powers; wide variations.
3. Fully open or extended: look with wide eyes.
4.
a. To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal: a shot that was wide of the target.
b. Baseball Outside.
c. Sports Being near one of the side boundaries of a playing area, such as a sideline on a football field.
5. Deviating or straying from something expected or specified: a remark that was wide of the truth.
6. Linguistics Lax.
adv. wider, widest
1. Over a great distance; extensively: traveled far and wide.
2. To the full extent; completely.
3. To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal.
4. Sports Toward or near one of the sides of a playing area: ran wide to catch a pass.
n. Sports
A ball bowled outside of the batsman's reach, counting as a run for the batting team in cricket.

[Middle English, from Old English wd; see wi- in Indo-European roots.]

widely adv.
wideness n.
widish adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.wideness - the property of being wide; having great width
width, breadth - the extent of something from side to side
thickness, heaviness - used of a line or mark
narrowness - the property of being narrow; having little width; "the narrowness of the road"
2.wideness - unusual largeness in size or extent or number
bigness, largeness - the property of having a relatively great size
enormity - vastness of size or extent; "in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size"; "universities recognized the enormity of their task"
Translations

wideness [ˈwaɪdnɪs] nanchura; amplitud f
wideness [ˈwaɪdnɪs] nlargeur f
wideness [ˈwaɪdnɪs] wide n [of road, river, gap] → Breite f
wideness [ˈwaɪdnɪs] nlarghezza; vastità; ampiezza


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I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe.
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.
 
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