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wide

/waɪd/ adjective A2
  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side. · We walked down a wide corridor.
  2. Large in scope. · The inquiry had a wide remit.
  3. Overweight, obese. (slang)
  4. Operating at the side of the playing area. · That team needs a decent wide player.
  5. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. · Two balls before lunch, he bowled a wide.· Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
  6. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth. (dated)
  7. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation. · a wide character; a wide stream

Comparative wider · Superlative widest

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He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 69 · B2
Till the shining scythes went far and wide
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 12 · C1
Nor any wider plains than these,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 15 · C1
Till I can see so wide,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 10 · C1

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