wide
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: compound
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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 divide, separate”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian widj (“wide”), Saterland Frisian wied (“wide”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Central Franconian weck, weit, wick, wiet (“distant, far, wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Luxembourgish weit (“wide”), wäit (“far”), Yiddish ווײַט (vayt, “distant, far”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vid (“wide”), Faroese and Icelandic víður (“wide”); also Breton gwez (“trees”), Cornish gwedh, gwëdh, gwydh, gwÿdh (“trees”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic fiodh (“timber, wood”), Manx fuygh (“timber, wood”), Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), Latin dīvidō (“to divide, separate”), Latgalian vyds (“middle”), Latvian vidus (“center, middle”), Lithuanian vidùs (“interior, inside; inward”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B wätk- (“to distinguish, separate”). Related to widow.
Inflected forms:
form: wider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more wide
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: widest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most wide
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wider
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: widest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: wides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a large physical extent from side to side.
pos: adj
examples: We walked down a wide corridor.
Over a wider region either side of the path of totality, a partial eclipse is seen.
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.
gloss: Large in scope.
pos: adj
examples: The inquiry had a wide remit.
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.
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."
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.
gloss: Overweight, obese.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
humorous
slang
gloss: Operating at the side of the playing area.
pos: adj
examples: That team needs a decent wide player.
gloss: On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Two balls before lunch, he bowled a wide.
Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.
I was but two bows wide.
gloss: Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Vast, great in extent, extensive.
pos: adj
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
archaic
examples: The wide, lifeless expanse.
gloss: Located some distance away; distant, far.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place.
the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
gloss: Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
But I tell you, it is farre wyde, that the people haue ſuche iudgmentes, the Byſhoppes they coulde laughe at it.
How wide is all this long pretence!
gloss: Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
pos: adj
examples: a wide character; a wide stream
gloss: Sharp-witted.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: 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.
gloss: Extensively.
pos: adv
examples: He travelled far and wide.
gloss: Completely.
pos: adv
examples: He was wide awake.
gloss: Away from or to one side of a given goal.
pos: adv
examples: The arrow fell wide of the mark.
A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
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.
gloss: So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
pos: adv
examples: And with his knee the dore he opens wide
gloss: 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
pos: noun
Synonyms: broad
thick
wide
Antonyms: narrow
thin
skinny
long
scrawny
Related words: width
Derived words: 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 blue yonder
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
wide-hipped
widely
widen
wideness
wide of the mark
wide-on
wide open
wide place in the road
wide-reaching
wide receiver
widescale
wide-scale
widescreen
wide shot
wide shut
wide spot in the road
wide-spread
widespread
wide stance
wide-wasting
wide-ranging
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