expanse
/ɪkˈspæns/ nom C1En français : étendue
- A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
- An amount of spread or stretch.
Pluriel expanses
Dans la bibliothèque
He saw overhead a black and tempestuous sky, across which the wind was driving clouds that occasionally suffered a twinkling star to appear; before him was the vast expanse of waters, sombre and terrible, whose waves foamed and roared as if before the approach of a storm.
The avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf, and the house lay before us.
Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
Vaguely I could discern the black bank of the trees and the lighter expanse of the moor, for the moon was behind the clouds.
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