wide
English
Etymology
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*dwóh₁ |
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#WIDECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#WIDE wid, wyd, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#WIDECategory:English terms derived from Old English#WIDE wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#WIDECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#WIDE *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#WIDE *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /waɪd/Category:English 1-syllable words#WIDECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#WIDE
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /wɑed/Category:English 1-syllable words#WIDECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#WIDE
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Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#WIDEAudio: (file) - Rhymes: -aɪdCategory:Rhymes:English/aɪd#WIDECategory:Rhymes:English/aɪd/1 syllable#WIDE
Adjective
wide (comparative wider or more wide, superlative widest or most wide)Category:English lemmas#WIDECategory:English adjectives#WIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WIDECategory:Pages with entries#WIDECategory:Pages with 2 entries#WIDE
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- We walked down a wide corridor.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- 1993, Jacqueline Mitton, The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy, 2nd edition (paperback), Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 127:
- Over a wider region either side of the path of totality, a partial eclipse is seen.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- 2019 October 23, Jennifer Ageista, “CNN Poll: Biden's lead in Democratic primary hits widest margin since April”, in CNN:
- Former Vice President Joe Biden's lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for president has rebounded, and now stands at its widest margin since April, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- Large in scope.
- The inquiry had a wide remit.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 5 September 2015:
- The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- 2014, Jessica R. Pliley, Policing Sexuality, page 192:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- Three-way girls offered the widest array of services. One twenty-two-year-old prostitute declared to an undercover vice investigator in New York City, "I am a three-way girl."Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- 2023 May 29, Madeline Holcombe, “Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there”, in CNN:
- Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- (slangCategory:English slang#WIDE, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#WIDE, humorousCategory:English humorous terms#WIDE) Overweight, obese.
- (sportsCategory:en:Sports#WIDE) Operating at the side of the playing area.
- That team needs a decent wide player.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
- Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- I was but two bows wide.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- (phoneticsCategory:en:Phonetics#WIDE, datedCategory:English dated terms#WIDE) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- (ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#WIDE, Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#WIDE, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
- The wide, lifeless expanse.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#WIDE) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
- the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of GodCategory:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#WIDE) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
- 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
- And I trust anon by the help of an infallible guide, to perfect such Prutenic tables, as shall mend the astronomy of our wide expositors.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- 1549 April 22 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Syxte Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, whiche He Preached before K. Edward [VI], the XII. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 75, verso:
- But I tell you, it is farre wyde, that the people haue ſuche iudgmentes, the Byſhoppes they coulde laughe at it.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC:
- How wide is all this long pretence!Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- (computingCategory:en:Computing#WIDE) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- a wide character; a wide stream
- (BritishCategory:British English#WIDE, slangCategory:English slang#WIDE, only in "wide boy") Sharp-witted.
- 1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, page 31:
- But the first visitor to penetrate from the outside world proved to be Sergeant Williams; large and pink and scrubbed-looking; and for a little while Grant forgot about battles long ago and considered wide boys alive today.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- all wool and a yard wide
- a mile wide and an inch deep
- blow wide open
- by a wide margin
- cast one's net far and wide
- cast one's net wide
- cut a wide swath
- cut a wide swathe
- en
- far and wide
- go wide
- have someone's nose wide open
- into the wide blue yonder
- midwide
- open wide
- paint with a wide brush
- spread one's net wide
- to the wide
- whole wide world
- wide-angle
- wide-angle converter
- wide-angle lens
- wide area network
- wide-area network
- wide-awake
- wide awake
- wide-awake hat
- wide berth
- wide-bodied
- wide-body
- wide boy
- wide column store
- wide-cut
- wide-eyed
- wide-field
- wide-flung
- wide-gab
- wide game
- wide-handed
- wide-handedness
- widely
- widen
- wideness
- wide of the mark
- wide-on
- wide open
- wide place in the road
- wide-ranging
- wide-reaching
- wide receiver
- widescale, wide-scale
- widescreen
- wide shot
- wide spot in the road
- widespread
- wide-spread
- wide stance
- wide-wasting
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Translations
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References
Adverb
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)Category:English lemmas#WIDECategory:English adverbs#WIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WIDECategory:Pages with entries#WIDECategory:Pages with 2 entries#WIDE
- extensively
- He travelled far and wide.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- completely
- He was wide awake.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- away from or to one side of a given goal
- The arrow fell wide of the mark.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- A few shots were fired but they all went wide.Category:English terms with usage examples#WIDE
- 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
- The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.Category:English terms with quotations#WIDE
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 359:
- And with his knee the dore he opens wideCategory:English terms with quotations#WIDE
Derived terms
Translations
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Noun
wide (plural wides)Category:English lemmas#WIDECategory:English nouns#WIDECategory:English countable nouns#WIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#WIDECategory:Pages with entries#WIDECategory:Pages with 2 entries#WIDE
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
wīdeCategory:Old English lemmas#WIDECategory:Old English adverbs#WIDECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#WIDECategory:Pages with entries#WIDECategory:Pages with 2 entries#WIDE
- widely, afar, far and wide
- wīdfērende ― coming from afarCategory:Old English terms with usage examples#WIDE