# wide
## English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *dwóh₁
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *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: /waɪd/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /wɑed/
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* Rhymes: -aɪd

### Adjective

wide (comparative wider or more wide, superlative widest or most wide)
* Having a large physical extent from side to side.
    We walked down a wide corridor.
** 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.
* Large in scope.
    The inquiry had a wide remit.
** 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist: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.
** 2014, Jessica R. Pliley, Policing Sexuality, page 192: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."
* (sports) 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.
    Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's 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.
** 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Philip Massinger, The Old Law:I was but two bows wide.
* (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
* (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
    The wide, lifeless expanse.
* (obsolete) 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.
** 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 God
* (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
** 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book: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.
** 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.
** [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!
* (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
    a wide character; a wide stream
* (British, slang, 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.

#### Antonyms

* narrow (regarding empty area)
* thin (regarding occupied area)
* skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)

#### Hyponyms

* Africa-wide
* America-wide
* Asia-wide
* Europe-wide
* EU-wide
* kilometre-wide
* km-wide
* metre-wide
* m-wide
* nation-wide
* region-wide
* site-wide
* space-wide
* system-wide
* US-wide
* worldwide

#### 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

#### Related terms

* width

#### Translations

Afrikaans: wyd, breed (af)
Aklanon: eapad
Albanian: i gjerë (sq)
Arabic: عَرِيض m (ʕarīḍ)
Egyptian Arabic: واسع (wāseʕ), عريض (ʕarīḍ)
Moroccan Arabic: عريض (ʕariḍ)
Armenian: լայն (hy) (layn)
Aromanian: largu, lat
Assamese: বহল (bohol)
Asturian: anchu (ast)
Azerbaijani: geniş (az)
Bashkir: киң (kiñ)
Basque: zabal
Belarusian: шыро́кі (be) (šyróki)
Bengali: প্রশস্ত (bn) (prośosto)
Bhojpuri: चाकर (cākar)
Bikol Central: halakbang (bcl)
Breton: ledan (br)
Brunei Malay: libar
Bulgarian: широ́к (bg) (širók)
Burmese: ကျယ် (my) (kyai)
Catalan: ample (ca)
Cebuano: lapad
Chechen: шуьйра (šüüra)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 闊 / 阔 (fut$^3$)
Mandarin: 寬 / 宽 (zh) (kuān), 寬廣的 / 宽广的 (zh) (kuānguǎng de), 寬闊的 / 宽阔的 (zh) (kuānkuò de)
Cornish: ledan
Crimean Tatar: keñ, keniş
Czech: široký (cs)
Dalmatian: luarc
Danish: bred (da), vid
Dutch: wijd (nl), breed (nl)
Egyptian: (wsḫ)
Esperanto: larĝa (eo)
Estonian: lai (et)
Faroese: breiður (fo), víður
Finnish: leveä (fi), laaja (fi)
French: large (fr) m or f
Friulian: larc, larg
Galician: largo (gl), ancho (gl)
Georgian: ვრცელი (vrceli), ფართო (parto), ფართე (parte), განიერი (ganieri)
German: breit (de), weit (de)
Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs)
Greek: ευρύς (el) m (evrýs), ευρεία f (evreía), φαρδύς (el) (fardýs)
Ancient: εὐρύς (eurús), πλατύς (platús)
Hebrew: רָחָב (he) (rakháv)
Hindi: चौड़ा (cauṛā)
Hungarian: széles (hu)
Icelandic: breiður (is), víður (is)
Ido: larja (io)
Ilocano: akaba (of tangible objects)
Indonesian: lebar (id)
Ingrian: levviä
Ingush: шера (šera)
Interlingua: large
Irish: leathan, fairsing
Old Irish: lethan
Italian: largo (it), ampio (it)
Japanese: 広い (ja) (ひろい, hiroi), 幅広い (ja) (はばひろい, habahiroi)
Javanese: amba (jv)
Kabuverdianu: largu
Kalmyk: өргн (örgn)
Karachay-Balkar: кенг (keñ)
Karaim: kień
Kashubian: szeroczi
Kazakh: кең (keñ)
Khakas: чалбах (çalbax)
Khmer: ល្ហ (km) (lhɑɑ)
Korean: 넓다 (ko) (neolda), 넓은 (ko) (neolbeun)
Kumyk: генг (geñ)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پان (ckb) (pan)
Northern Kurdish: pan (ku), pehn (ku), fire (ku), berfire (ku)
Kyrgyz: кең (ky) (keŋ)
Lao: ກວ້າງ (kuāng)
Latgalian: plots
Latin: lātus (la) m
Latvian: plats (lv)
Lithuanian: platus
Low German: breed, breet
Luxembourgish: breet (lb)
Macedonian: широк (širok)
Malay: lebar (ms)
Maltese: wiesgħa
Manchu: ᠣᠨᠴᠣ (onco)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: кумда (kumda)
Mongolian: өргөн (mn) (örgön)
Navajo: hóteel
Nivkh: вердь (verd̦)
Nogai: кенъ (keñ)
Norman: large m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vid (no), bred (no), brei (no)
Nynorsk: vid, brei
Occitan: larg (oc), ample (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: широкъ (širokŭ)
Old East Slavic: широкъ (širokŭ)
Old English: wīd, brād, sīd
Old Javanese: lĕba
Oroqen: ərpə
Ossetian: уӕрӕх (wæræx)
Ottoman Turkish: بسیط (basît)
Papiamentu: largu
Persian: پهن (fa) (pahn), گسترده (fa) (gostarde), وسیع (fa) (vasi'), فراخ (fa) (farâx)
Pitjantjatjara: lipi
Plautdietsch: breet
Polabian: sårüke
Polish: szeroki (pl)
Portuguese: largo (pt), amplo (pt)
Rapa Nui: lau
Romani: buxlo
Romanian: larg (ro), lat (ro)
Romansch: lartg
Russian: широ́кий (ru) (širókij)
Sanskrit: पृथु (sa) (pṛthú)
Sardinian: lalgu
Scottish Gaelic: leathann, farsaing, (of specified width) a leud
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шѝрок
Roman: šìrok (sh)
Shor: кең
Sicilian: largu (scn)
Slovak: široký
Slovene: širok (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: šyroki
Upper Sorbian: šěroki
Southern Altai: кеҥ (keŋ), јалбак (ǰalbak)
Spanish: ancho (es), amplio (es)
Sundanese: rubak
Swedish: vid (sv), bred (sv)
Tagalog: malapad
Tajik: васеъ (tg) (vaseʾ)
Tarantino: larghe
Tatar: киң (kiñ)
Telugu: వెడల్పైన (te) (veḍalpaina)
Tetum: luak
Thai: กว้างใหญ่ (th) (gwâang-yài), กว้าง (th) (gwâang)
Tocharian B: pärkare
Turkish: vasi (tr), geniş (tr)
Turkmen: giň
Tày: cải
Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎈𐎁 (rḥb)
Ukrainian: широ́кий (šyrókyj)
Urdu: چوڑا (cauṛā)
Uyghur: keng)
Uzbek: keng (uz)
Vietnamese: rộng (vi)
Volapük: vidik (vo)
Walloon: lådje (wa) m or f
Waray-Waray: halapad
Welsh: llydan (cy)
West Frisian: breed, wiid
Yiddish: ברייט (breyt)
Zealandic: breêd, wied :
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#### References

* The Dictionary of the Scots Language

### Adverb

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
* extensively
    He travelled far and wide.
* completely
    He was wide awake.
* away from or to one side of a given goal
    The arrow fell wide of the mark.
    A few shots were fired but they all went 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.
* 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 wide

#### Derived terms

* wide-ranging

#### Translations
### Noun

wide (plural wides)
* (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

### Anagrams

* Wied

## Old English
### Etymology

wīd +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwiː.de/

### Adverb

wīde
* widely, afar, far and wide
    wīdfērende ― coming from afar