wide
/waɪd/ adjective A2- Having a large physical extent from side to side. · We walked down a wide corridor.
- Large in scope. · The inquiry had a wide remit.
- Overweight, obese.
- Operating at the side of the playing area. · That team needs a decent wide player.
- 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.
- Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- 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
From the library
Till the shining scythes went far and wide
Nor any wider plains than these,
GREAT is the sun, and wide he goes
“Cheshire Puss,” she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.
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