Wide meaning

wīd

Wide is defined as over a large area, or to a large extent.

An example of wide used as an adverb is in the phrase "to read wide," which means to read a large range of books.

adverb

Wide is a cricket term meaning a ball that was bowled out of batman's reach, which is counted as a run for the batter.

An example of a wide is a way of scoring a run for the batting team.

noun

The definition of wide is extending over a large area, of great range or of greater than normal size.

An example of something wide is a larger than average sized foot.

adjective

Fully open or extended.

Look with wide eyes.

adjective

Having great extent or range; including much or many.

A wide selection; granting wide powers; wide variations.

adjective

Deviating or straying from something expected or specified.

A remark that was wide of the truth.

adjective

Lax.

adjective

Having a specified extent from side to side.

A ribbon two inches wide.

adjective

Extending over a great distance from side to side; broad.

A wide road; a wide necktie.

adjective

To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal.

A shot that was wide of the target.

adjective

Outside.

adjective

Being toward or near one of the side boundaries of a playing area, such as a sideline on a football field.

adjective

Over a great distance; extensively.

Traveled far and wide.

adverb

To the full extent; completely.

adverb

To the side of or at a distance from a given boundary, limit, or goal.

adverb

Toward or near one of the sides of a playing area.

Ran wide to catch a pass.

adverb

A ball bowled outside of the batsman's reach, counting as a run for the batting team in cricket.

noun

Extending or effective throughout a specified area or region.

Statewide.

suffix

Extending over a large area; esp., extending over a larger area from side to side than is usual or normal.

A wide bed.

adjective

Of a specified extent from side to side.

Three miles wide.

adjective

Of great extent, range, or inclusiveness.

A wide variety, wide reading.

adjective

Roomy; ample; loose; full.

Wide pants.

adjective

Open or extended to full width.

Eyes wide with fear.

adjective

Landing, striking, or ending far from the point, issue, etc. aimed at.

Wide of the target.

adjective

Having a relatively low proportion of protein.

adjective

Lax.

adjective

Over a relatively large area; widely.

To travel far and wide.

adverb

To a large or full extent; fully.

With the door wide open.

adverb

So as to miss the point, issue, etc. aimed at; astray.

Shots that went wide.

adverb

A wide area.

noun

A ball bowled out of the batsman's reach, counted as a run for the batting team.

noun

Existing or extending throughout (a specified area)

Statewide.

affix

Having a large physical extent from side to side.

We walked down a wide corridor.

adjective

Large in scope.

The inquiry had a wide remit.

adjective

(sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.

That team needs a decent wide player.

adjective

On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.

adjective

(phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

adjective

Remote; distant; far.

adjective

Latimer.

It is far wide that the people have such judgments.

adjective

Herbert.

How wide is all this long pretence!

adjective

Extensively.

He travelled far and wide.

adverb

Completely.

He was wide awake.

adverb

Away from a given goal.

The arrow fell wide of the mark.

adverb

So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

adverb

(cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score.

noun

Origin of wide

From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wÄ«d (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far"), from Proto-Germanic *wÄ«daz, from Proto-Indo-European *wÄ«- (“apart, asunder, in two"), from Proto-Indo-European *weye- (“to drive, separate"). Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast"), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide"), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad"), German weit (“far; wide; broad"), Swedish vid (“wide"), Icelandic vÃÃ°ur (“wide"), Latin dÄ«vidÅ (“separate, sunder"), Latin vÄ«tÅ (“avoid, shun"). Related to widow.

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