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Definition: Wide |
WideAdjective1. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river". 2. Broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers". 3. (used of eyes) fully open or extended; "listened in round-eyed wonder"; "stared with wide eyes". 4. Very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies". 5. Great in degree; "won by a wide margin". 6. Great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection". 7. Having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt". 8. Not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth". Adverb1. With or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end". 2. To the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open". 3. Far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander". 4. To or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WIDE | English | Women in Development Europe | Social Sciences |
| WIS | English | Wide imaging stereo | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WideSynonyms: across-the-board (adj), all-embracing (adj), all-encompassing (adj), all-inclusive (adj), blanket(a) (adj), broad (adj), encompassing (adj), extended (adj), extensive (adj), full (adj), panoptic (adj), round-eyed (adj), spacious (adj), wide of the mark (adj), wide-cut (adj), wide-eyed (adj), astray (adv), widely (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: narrow (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Breadth, Thickness | Adjective: broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fanlike; outspread, outstretched; "wide as a church-door"; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wide |
| English words defined with "wide": wide of the mark, wide wale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wide": Area Wide Hydrologic Prediction System ♦ Campus Wide Information System ♦ Wide Area Information Servers, wide flat, wide plate, Wide SCSI, World Wide Web Consortium. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wide": Wyd. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Life in the wide world goes on much as it has these past age, full of its own comings and goings, scarcely aware of the existence of hobbits for which I am very thankful (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that (Armageddon; writing credit: Robert Roy Pool; Jonathan Hensleigh) And who's my best buddy in the whole wide world (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger) There! That should be wide enough (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) | |
Lyrics | Wide Eyed And Grinning, She Never Tired (Wide Open Spaces; performing artist: DIXIE CHICKS) Wasn't able to make it enough for you to be open wide, no (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Open up wide (Losing Grip; performing artist: AVRIL LAVIGNE) And keep your eyes wide, the chance won’t come again ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) With your arms open wide (Do I Have To Say The Words?; performing artist: Bryan Adams) | |
Clever | The gap between advice and help is very wide. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wide Open Marriage (1974) ABC's Wide World of Entertainment (1973) The Wide Country (1962) ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961) Wide Wide World (1955) | |
Song Titles | The River Is Wide (performing artist: The Grass Roots) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shows interior wide shot of Central Cancer Research Lab library. A woman sits at the table with a book. (1931). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Two individual shots of Building 1. One shot is medium shot of front of Building 1 taken from slight angle to include flag pole on left. Another shot shows front of Building 1 taken from a low angle with flag pole centered. Shot is wide. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Cone-shaped cores are sectioned in various orientations. Viral genomic RNA is located in the electron-dense wide end of core. Credit: CDC. |  | A row of teeth arises from a large sclerotized plate borne laterally on the eighth abdominal segment. Uranotaenia have characteristically shaped heads, longer than wide. All but one Western species have four stout spines on the head. Credit: CDC. |
 | Ultraviolet image of Jupiter taken by the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The ... Credit: NASA. |  | Recent images made with the Wide Field Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Lunar mosaic taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA. |  | Close-up of the crater Copernicus taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA. |
 | Camp at Wide Bay, Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Bob Pryce getting near the top On the way to Station Wide. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Boat in sunset wide" by Marko Domagoj Zic Commentary: "Sunset in Punat, island Krk, Croatia, Europe." | "Three Buddhas" by Tim Gilmour Commentary: "Wide angle view of the interior of a buddhist temple in Penang, Malaysia." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared. |
Benjamin Franklin | Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. |
Christina Rossetti | For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. |
Confucius | By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. |
Dante Alighieri | The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it. |
Edmund Spenser | Wars and alarums unto nations wide. |
John Keats | Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! |
Sarah J. Hale | Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home. |
Voltaire | After you have sought over the wide world, you learn that happiness is to be found only in your own home. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Commission shall in general have wide latitude as to its control and handling of the whole reparation problem as dealt with in this Part of the present Treaty and shall have authority to interpret its provisions. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Because these are class actions, because of the wide applicability of this decision, and because of the great variety of local conditions, the formulation of decrees in these cases presents problems of considerable complexity. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | An oblong garden, half a yard longer than wide, consists entirely of a gravel walk, spirally arranged, a yard wide and 3630 yards long |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge sat with his door wide open, that he might see him come into the Tank |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | It looked back at him with wide eyes |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Mondetour labyrinth was ripped up and opened wide in 1847, and probably is now no more |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But he imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Her eyes started wide open |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The two great streets, which run cross and divide it into four quarters, are five feet wide. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is a canal two rods wide along the northerly and westerly sides, and wider still at the east end. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Doctors can prescribe a wide range of infection-fighting antimicrobials. (references) | |
Adult worms are up to 3 feet long and are as wide as a spaghetti noodle. (references) | ||
Different mutations in the same gene can produce a wide range of effects. (references) | ||
Business | Incinerators can deal with a wide range of clinical waste. (references) | |
Most companies supply a wide range of SSE to firms and individuals. (references) | ||
Public R&D expenditure on a wide range of projects has increased yearly. (references) | ||
Children | Malaysia | Child abuse receives wide coverage in the press. (references) |
Switzerland | To combat child pornography on the Internet, the Federal Office for Police provides an Internet monitoring service on its World Wide Web page. (references) | |
Uganda | The law stipulates parents' responsibilities and provides extensive protection for children in a wide variety of areas, including financial support, foster care placement, adoption, determination of parentage, and treatment of children charged with offenses. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Morocco | The antennas are in wide use throughout the country. (references) |
Iran | Initially it attracted a wide following among Shi'a clergy. (references) | |
Ghana | Most stations are independent and air a wide range of viewpoints. (references) | |
Economic History | Denmark | Advertising on the world wide web is increasing. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | It maintains a wide variety of diplomatic contacts. (references) | |
Botswana | DOSFAN's World Wide Web site is at http://www.state.gov. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ecuador | Under the new system, prosecutors have wide discretion in deciding which cases can proceed. (references) |
Korea | Laws regarding arrest and detention often are vague, and prosecutors have wide latitude to interpret them. (references) | |
Uganda | The Commission probed a wide range of police abuses, including abuses committed by senior police officials. (references) | |
Minorities | Yugoslavia | This multiethnic police force has wide approval in the Albanian community. (references) |
Croatia | Without the recognition conferred by the law, citizens (almost exclusively ethnic Serbs) remained unable to resolve a wide range of problems including pensions, disability insurance, unemployment benefits, the recognition of births, deaths, and marriages, and even confirmation of time served in prison. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ukraine | Nevertheless a wide range of opinion is available in newspapers and periodicals. (references) |
Political Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The country is a parliamentary democracy with an active multiparty system in which a wide range of political views is represented. (references) |
Algeria | The more than 30 existing political parties represent a wide spectrum of viewpoints and engage in activities that range from holding rallies to issuing communiques. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | In 1998 President Niyazov promised that the parliamentary elections scheduled for December 1999 for a reconstituted Parliament would be free and fair and conducted on a wide democratic basis; however, the elections were flawed seriously. (references) | |
Trade | Ghana | These standards cover a wide range of products. (references) |
Philippines | The program covers a wide range of agricultural commodities. (references) | |
Romania | Commercial banks are authorized to engage in a wide range of banking functions. (references) | |
Travel | Ireland | Ireland has a wide and excellent range of restaurants. (references) |
Colombia | Hotels: There is a wide variety of hotels in Colombia. (references) | |
Guyana | Food: There is a wide variety of tropical fruits and vegetables in Guyana. (references) | |
Women | Austria | They usually receive wide public attention when voicing their concerns. (references) |
Brunei | Women serve in a wide variety of capacities in the armed forces, although they are not permitted to serve in combat. (references) | |
Kenya | Women experience a wide range of discriminatory practices, limiting their political and economic rights and relegating them to second class citizenship. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Malaysia | These workers occupy a wide range of menial jobs in the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors. (references) |
Burkina Faso | They represent a wide ideological spectrum; the largest and most vocal member espouses socialist doctrine. (references) | |
Indonesia | Strikes frequently occurred during the year across a wide range of industries and occasionally were protracted. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Tom Daschle | Well, I wish I could tell you how well it's going. I don't know anything that you don't know. At this point, I think that it's wide open. I think we have a lot more questions than we do answers. At this point, I think that it's a mystery. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Separated by wide seas from all those Governments whose power we might have reason to dread, we have nothing to apprehend from attempts at conquest. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In our cities last summer, we saw how wide is the gulf for some Americans between the promise and the reality of our society. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | More than ever before, our own well-being depends on America's determination and America's leadership in the whole wide world. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have opened wide the doors of the world's best system of higher education. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Wide" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.68% of the time. "Wide" is used about 9,779 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.68% | 9,258 | 1,026 |
| Adverb (general) | 5.29% | 517 | 11,748 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,779 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wide" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wide | Last name | 130 | 66,496 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wide". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Witold | Male | German | A wide ruler |
| Witold | Male | Polish | A wide ruler |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Home Wide Corporation | USA | Wolverine World Wide, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "wide": a man of wide culture ♦ a man of wide reading ♦ a wide acquaintance ♦ a wide berth ♦ an undertaking of wide scope ♦ be wide ♦ be wide awake ♦ be wide of the mark ♦ become wide ♦ becoming wide ♦ big wide eyes ♦ broke to the wide ♦ campus Wide Information System ♦ extra wide ♦ Far and wide ♦ give a wide berth ♦ give a wide berth to ♦ give smb. a wide berth ♦ go wide ♦ have a wide acquaintance with ♦ nation wide ♦ Navy Theater Wide Defense ♦ open smb.'s eyes wide ♦ open smb.'s mouth too wide ♦ open wide ♦ opening wide ♦ shoot wide ♦ spread far and wide ♦ spread wide ♦ state wide ♦ the wide ♦ the wide world ♦ to the wide ♦ wide apart ♦ wide Area Information Servers ♦ wide area network ♦ wide area telephone service ♦ wide asunder ♦ wide avenue ♦ wide awake ♦ wide ball ♦ wide band ♦ wide base stereoscopy ♦ wide berth ♦ wide coverage ♦ wide curb lane ♦ wide difference ♦ wide door ♦ wide flat ♦ wide format ♦ wide gauge ♦ wide hoe ♦ Wide Hollow ♦ wide knowledge ♦ wide of ♦ wide of the mark ♦ wide of the truth ♦ wide off the mark ♦ wide open ♦ wide opening ♦ wide petiolar sinus ♦ wide plate ♦ wide possibilities ♦ wide range ♦ wide screen ♦ wide SCSI ♦ wide space ♦ wide views ♦ wide wale ♦ wide world ♦ with wide open eyes ♦ world wide ♦ world wide web ♦ world Wide Web Consortium. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wide": Wide-angle, wide-angle lens, wide-angled, wide-apart, wide-arching, wide-area, wide-astride, Wide-awake, wide-awakeness, wide-band, wide-bandwidth, wide-based, wide-beam, wide-belted, wide-bladed, wide-bodied, wide-bodies, wide-body, wide-body aircraft, wide-bottomed, wide-boy, wide-boys, wide-brimmed, wide-brimmed hat, wide-browed, wide-chested, wide-collared, wide-coverage, wide-cut, wide-cut fuel, wide-eared, wide-embracing, wide-eyed, wide-eyed-long-legged, wide-field, wide-focus, wide-foot, wide-grained, wide-headed, wide-hipped, wide-lapelled, wide-legged, wide-lipped, wide-look, wide-man, wide-margin, wide-margined, wide-mesh, wide-meshed, wide-money, wide-mouth, wide-mouthed, wide-necked, wide-open, wide-opened, wide-opening, wide-out, wide-pored, wide-range, wide-ranging, wide-ratio, wide-reaching, wide-rimmed, wide-ringed, wide-running, wide-scale, wide-scattered, wide-screen, wide-screen film, wide-set, wide-shouldered, wide-skirted, wide-sleeved, wide-spaced, wide-spectrum, wide-spectrum, wide-spread, wide-spreading, wide-straddled, wide-strapped, wide-tooth, wide-toothed, wide-track, wide-tread, wide-varying, wide-vowelled, wide-wheel, wide-winged. | |
Ending with "wide": aea-wide, area-wide, authority-wide, borough-wide, city-wide, cm-wide, community-wide, company-wide, corporate-wide, council-wide, county-wide, course-wide, district-wide, economy-wide, ec-wide, enterprise-wide, european-wide, europe-wide, euro-wide, group-wide, industry-wide, island-wide, london-wide, market-wide, mile-wide, nation-wide, organisation-wide, planet-wide, province-wide, region-wide, school-wide, scotland-wide, service-wide, site-wide, six-foot-wide, species-wide, state-wide, system-wide, uk-wide, union-wide, university-wide, us-wide, world-wide. | |
Containing "wide": nato-wide exercise, World-Wide Wait, world-wide web, World-Wide Web browser, World-Wide Web Worm, World-wide-web. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
world wide web | 2,157 | arms open wide | 123 |
wide shoes | 513 | wide pussy | 118 |
wide open west | 491 | leg wide open | 118 |
wide width shoes | 491 | world wide | 115 |
eyes wide shut | 486 | edition wide world yugioh | 114 |
wide open | 304 | wide body kit | 109 |
country wide | 238 | spread wide | 98 |
wide womens shoes | 226 | edition gi oh rom wide world yu | 97 |
wide | 203 | extra wide shoes | 96 |
cheat edition gi oh wide world yu | 202 | disney wide world of sports | 94 |
country wide mortgage | 192 | man wide shoes | 91 |
wide open pussy | 183 | double wide trailer | 88 |
wide area network | 173 | world wide locator | 87 |
country wide home loan | 172 | history web wide world | 77 |
world wide wife | 170 | wide angle lens | 74 |
edition gi oh wide world yu | 155 | double wide mobile home | 72 |
wide width shoes womens | 141 | cable open west wide | 67 |
wide screen tv | 134 | wide sargasso sea | 63 |
wide format printer | 132 | boob wide world | 62 |
double wide home | 125 | wide open space | 62 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | uitgestrek (extensive, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Albanian | plotësisht (absolutely, all, at large, clear, cold, completely, dead, diametrically, entirely, fully, heartily, hollow, large, neck and crop, out and out, outright, perfectly, plain, plenty, Plumb, properly, quite, sheer, sound, stark, thoroughly, through and through, throughly, to the full extent, to the ground, totally, up, up to the hilt, utterly, well, wholly, widely), larg (afar, afield, apart, away, clear, distant, far, far away, far off, off), i larguar (devious, evacuee, gone, runaway), i hapur fort, i gjerë (ample, broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, mighty, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vast, vasty), anash (alongside, askance, edgeways, edgewise, laterally, sideward, sidewards, sideways). (various references) | |
Arabic | رحب (spacious), فضفاض (baggy, flowing, large, loose, looseness), مفتوح على مداه, هائل (astronomic, astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked), واسع (ample, broad, capacious, colossal, extensive, fair, far flung, generous, immense, large, mighty, oceanic, rich, spacious, widish), تماما (all, all right, alright, altogether, completely, decidedly, diametrically, enough, entirely, exactly, fairly, fully, in full, just, ok, okay, okey, perfectly, plumb, precisely, properly, quite, quite so, right, sharp, simply, smack, so far so good, stark, stock, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, very, well, wholly), عريض (beamy, broad, floppy, squab), ذو عرض معين, رحيب (capacious), شاسع (enormous, vast). (various references) | |
Basque | zabal (broad). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | общ (aggregate, blanket, broad, collective, common, communal, corporate, general, generic, global, impersonal, joint, omnibus, overall, solid, total), просторен (commodious, expansive, extended, extensive, large, oceanic, rangy, roomy, spacious, vast), морално разпуснат, напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, without reserve), навсякъде (about, abroad, all around, anywhere, around, at every turn, everywhere, high and low, over, right-and-left, throughout), нашироко (widely), не в целта, непредубеден (impartial, open minded, unbiased, unjaundiced, unprejudiced), неограничен (absolute, autocratic, autocratical, clear, limitless, plenary, plenipotentiary, sovereign, stintless, termless, unbounded, unconditioned, unconstrained, unlimited, unreserved, unrestricted, unstinted, untrammelled), далеч (afar, afield, away, deep, distantly, far, far and away, far away), обширен (ample, broad, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far flung, generic, large, large scale, rangy, spacious, vast, vasty, voluminous), съвсем (all, altogether, clean, clear, completely, directly, dooms, fairly, just, largely, most, plain, precious, quite, real, regularly, simply, sopping, spang, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly), отворен (abroach, exposed, flat, open, patent, raw, slack, unclosed), отракан (experienced, knowing, practised, pushing, shrewd, smart, wordly-wise), всеобхватен (across the board, all-embracing, catholic, omnibus, overall, well-rounded), широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, voluminous), широко (broadly, loose, widely), топка извън чертата, хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wily, wordly-wise), свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, neglige, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void), неточен (improper, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact, lax, loose, unfaithful, untrue, wrong). (various references) | |
Chinese | 闊 (broad, peep, pry into, rich), 開闊 (open), 綽 (ample, generous, spacious, well-off), 摦 (broad), 宽, 大 (big, deep, doctor, eldest, great, huge, large, major, oldest), 廣闊 (vast), 廣 (numerous, to spread), 寬闊 (expanse), 寬 (broad, lenient). (various references) | |
Czech | široký (baggy, big, broad, sweeping). (various references) | |
Danish | rummelig (extensive, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Dutch | ruim (above, extensive, hold, spacious, vast, widely), royaal (extensive, generous, spacious, vast), groot (adult, big, extensive, full-grown, great, lanky, large, spacious, tall, vast), breedvoerig (extensive, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vasta (extensive, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Faeroese | víður (broad, extensive, spacious, vast), rúmur (extensive, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Farsi | فراخ (Ample, Spacious), پهناور (Ample, Broad, Extensive, Immense, Vast), پهن (Abroad, Broad, Cachet, Flat, Large, Mulch, Plain), پرت (Aback, Desultory, Faraway, Hurl, Remote, Solitary), نامحدود (Indefinite, Indeterminable, Infinite, Unlimited, Unqualified, Unrestrained), کاملاباز, گشاد (Broad, Loose, Slack, Spacious), وسیع (Abroad, Ample, Captious, Comprehensive, Extensive, Immense, Large, Roomy, Spacious, Vast), زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very), عمومی (Common, Encyclical, Exoteric, General, Generic, Overt, Public, Rife, Universal), عریض (Broad). (various references) | |
Finnish | avara (broad, extensive, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
French | large, ample, vaste (widely, widish), grand. (various references) | |
German | weit (a long way, afar, ample, away, big, broad, by far, capacious, dilated, distant, elastic, extensive, far, far away, great, large, long, loose, loose-fitting, open, remote, remotely, roomy, spacious, vast, widely), breit (across, broad, broadly, massive, sprawling, widely). (various references) | |
Greek | πλατύς (broad). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רווח (ample, extended, roomy, spacing, spacious), רחב (broad, spacious), נרחב (ample, broad, extensive, far reaching, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Hungarian | széles (broad, extensive, large, spacious, vast, widish), távol (afar, afield, aloof, asunder, away, away from, distant, far, off, to be wide of the mark, to keep back, to keep clear of sg, to keep off), tág (broad, capacious, elastic, large, loose, slack). (various references) | |
Icelandic | víður (broad, extensive, spacious, vast), rúmgóður (extensive, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Indonesian | luas (amplitude, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, dimensional, expansive, extensive, extent, far-ranging (discussion), vast), lebar (amplitude, breadth, broad), berbuntang (stretched). (various references) | |
Italian | largo (broad, deep, extensive, large, largo, loose, loose-fitting, ready), vasto (ample, distant, extensive, far, large, long, multitudinous, remote, roomy, sweeping, vast, widely), ampio (ample, broad, full, large, loose, roomy, spacious, sweeping, vast). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 広い (spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ワイド , ひろい (broadminded, spacious, vast), こうばくたる (boundless, vast), こうはん (comprehensive, deck, erythema, extensive, mimeograph, public hearing, red spots, second half, steel plate, steel sheet, trial, wide-ranging, widespread), はばひろい (broad, extensive), はばのひろい (broad). (various references) | |
Korean | 넓게 (Broadly, Widely, Wider, Widest). (various references) | |
Manx | lhean (broad, extensive, flat of nose, full, full of chin, sheet, sweeping), feayn (expansive, extensive, horizontal, roomy, vague, vast), er lheead (broad, in breadth, in width). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vid (extensive, loose, spacious, vast). (various references) | |
Occitan | larg (broad). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ideway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amplo (all-embracing, ample, bulky, commodious, extensive, full, large, loose, open, plump, roomy, spacious, vast), vasto (all-embracing, boundless, colossal, deep, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, great, huge, immense, open, spacious, sweeping, vast, vasty), largo (ample, bagging, baggy, broad, flyaway, large, largo, plaza, public square, roomy, slip-on, square), grande (all-embracing, almighty, big, considerable, decuman, goodly, grand, great, high, large, much, roomy, rousing, spacious, substantial, swingeing, vast, walloping), extenso (ample, broad, bulky, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, flyaway, large, long, slip-on, spacious, sweeping, vast, voluminous), espaçoso (all-embracing, capacious, commodious, extensive, roomy, spacious, vast, widish). (various references) | |
Romanian | vast (ample, broad, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far reaching, large, measureless, spacious, vast), spaţios (ample, broad, commodious, large, roomy, spacious), pretutindeni (anywhere, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, here, in all places, throughout), peste tot (all over, anywhere, around, overall, passim, throughout), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous), lat (broad, flat, flatly, prone, Square), larg deschis, larg (ample, broad, broadly, comprehensive, extensive, full, large, loose, mighty, open-mindedly, roomy, space, spacious, spaciousness, vast), extensiv (comprehensive, extending, extensive), departe de ţintã (wide of the mark), cuprinzãtor (ample, broad, compendious, comprehensive, extensive, far reaching, inclusive, long range, open-mindedly), considerabil (appreciable, considerable, considerably, extensive, fair, far, great, handsome, heavy, large, notably, notedly, noticeably, sensible, significant, tidy), care se îndepãrteazã de. (various references) | |
Russian | широкий (broad, catholic, ever-growing, far reaching, flyaway, general, large, loose, slip on, sweeping). (various references) | |
Scottish | stàbhach, farsaing, fairsing. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrlo (badly, extremely, intensely, jolly, most, passing, right, strongly, true, uncommonly, very, whopping), sasvim (all over, all: at all, clean, completely, dead, entirely, fairly, lock up stock and barrel, plunk, quite, sheer, span-new, stark, stinking, throughout, totally, utterly, well, well nigh, whole, wholly), koji odstupa, širom (throughout), široko (broadly, loosely, sirocco, widely), širok (broad, extensive, full, loose, spacious, spreading). (various references) | |
Spanish | ancho (breadth, broad, capacious, deep, depth, extensive, Gage, gauge, loose, square shouldered, width), vasto (distant, extensive, far, grandiose, great, huge, long, remote, vast, vasty, widely). (various references) | |
Swahili | kuachama (open one's mouth wide). (various references) | |
Swedish | vid (about, against, at, beside, broad, by, extensive, for, fore, full, in, in case of, large, near, near to, nearby, next to, of, off, on, over, so, space, spacious, to, unto, vast, with), rymlig (airy, ample, capacious, commodious, extensive, full, roomy, spacious, vast), bred (broad, sweeping). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaygın (broad, common, diffuse, diffusive, endemic, epidemic, epidemical, expansive, extensive, familiar, far flung, general, pandemic, pervasive, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, widespread), tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, at large, bang, bang on, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, hollow, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, precious, properly, quite, richly, roundly, sheer, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly), kapsamlı (across the board, blanket, comprehensive, exhaustive, generic, universal, well-rounded), iyice (clean, complete, completely, fair, fully, goodish, jolly well, over, proper, properly, quite, rather good, thoroughly, tolerable, tolerably, well, widely), geniş (ample, broad, broadly, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmical, expansive, extended, extensive, full, large, obtuse, open, roomy, spacious, splay, vast, walk in), ferah (capacious, commodious, light-well, open, richness, roomy, spacious), enli (broad, broadly, widely), engin (boundless, exalted, extensive, immense, offing), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy), büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing), ardına kadar açık (wide open), ardına kadar, alabildiğine (all out and out, like sin, to the utmost, with a vengeance), adamakıllı (greatly, head over heels, over, Plumb, profound, proper, properly, regularly, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, widely, with a vengeance). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яogyn, giсiю (spacious), giс (composed, spacious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпусний (bestial, debauched, lecherous, libertine, lickerish, meretricious, profligate, rakish, riotous, salacious), хитрий (arch, argute, artful, astute, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, enterprising, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wily), широчінь (amplitude, vastness), широко (abroad, amply, broad, broadly, extensively, loosely, open-mindedly, widely), широкий (ample, big, broad, capacious, catholic, main, multitudinous, sweeping, vast), всюди (abroad, anywhere, around, passim, throughout), віддалений (abstracted, away, back, distant, far, far off, in the distance, off, out, out of the way, outlying, remote, secluded), невлад, невдалий (abortive, awry, bad, failed, ineffectual, infelicitous, lame, nasty, naughty, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky), непомірний (extravagant, unconscionable), навстіж, завширшки (across), просторий (acred, ample, broad, capacious, commodious, expansive, extensive, far flung, loose, omnibus, rangy, space, spacious), далеко (a long way, afar, afield, away, far, far away, far out, way, widely). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trệch xa, rộng r i, rộng lớn mở rộng, rộng khắp xa, rộng (ample, broad, broadly, capacious, extensive, far-flung, large, splay), phóng khoáng (big, open, open-minded), kiết lõ đít, cách xa xo trá. (various references) | |
Welsh | llydan (broad), eang (ample, broad, immense). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | latus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | pathanayå, vouru. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | brad, geap. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 5, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Egeneto de en tw ton oclon epikeisqai autw tou akouein ton logon tou qeou kai autoV hn estwV para thn limnhn gennhsaret |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Factum est autem cum turbae inruerent in eum ut audirent verbum Dei et ipse stabat secus stagnum Gennesareth |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soþlice wæs geworden þa ða menegu him to comon þæt hig godes word gehyrdon. he stod wið þone mere genesareþ. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And it was don, whanne the puple cam fast to Jhesu, to here the word of God, he stood bisidis the pool of Genasereth, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | It came to passe as the people preased vpon him to heare the worde of God that he stoode by the lake of Genezareth: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it came to pass, that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 5, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Samtang ang mga tawo nanagdotdot kaniya aron sa pagpatalinghug sa pulong sa Dios, siya nagtindog sa bay-bayon sa lanaw sa Genesaret. |
| Croatian | Dok se jednom oko njega gurao narod da èuje rijeè Božju, stajaše on pokraj Genezaretskog jezera. |
| Danish | Men det skete, da Folkeskaren trængte sig sammen om ham og hørte Guds Ord, og han stod ved Genezareths Sø, |
| Dutch | En het geschiedde, als de schare op Hem aandrong, om het Woord Gods te horen, dat Hij stond bij het meer Gennesareth. |
| Finnish | Kun kansa tunkeutui hänen ympärilleen kuulemaan Jumalan sanaa ja hän seisoi Gennesaretin järven rannalla, |
| French | Comme Jésus se trouvait auprès du lac de Génésareth, et que la foule se pressait autour de lui pour entendre la parole de Dieu, |
| German | Es begab sich aber, da sich das Volk zu ihm drängte, zu hören das Wort Gottes, daß er stand am See Genezareth |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada suatu waktu, Yesus berdiri di pantai Danau Genesaret. Banyak orang berdesak-desakan untuk mendengar berita dari Allah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tatkala orang banyak mengasak Yesus hendak mendengar firman Allah, sedang Ia berdiri di pantai Tasik Genesaret, |
| Italian | Un giorno, mentre, levato in piedi, stava presso il lago di Genèsaret |
| Manx Gaelic | As haink eh gy-kione myr va'n pobble chionney stiagh er dy chlashtyn goo Yee, as eh ny hassoo liorish faarkey Ghennesareth, |
| Maori | ¶ A, i te mano e aki ana ki a ia ki te whakarongo ki te kupu a te Atua, na e tu ana ia i te taha o te roto o Kenehareta, |
| Norwegian | Men det skjedde da folket trengte sig inn på ham og hørte Guds ord, og han stod ved Gennesaret-sjøen, |
| Portuguese | Certa vez, quando a multidão apertava Jesus para ouvir a palavra de Deus, ele estava junto ao lago de Genezaré; |
| Rumanian | Pe cknd Se afla lkngq lacul Ghenezaret wi Kl kmbulzea norodul ca sq audq Cuvkntul lui Dumnezeu, |
| Shuar | ¶ Chíkich tsawantai Jesus Jinisarít antumianka tutainium Káanmatkari pujai ti Untsurí shuar, Yusa chichamen antuktai tusar wakeruiniak Jesusai Káunkarmiayi. Antuktai tusar wakeruiniak kae ajattsarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Siku moja Yesu alikuwa amesimama kando ya ziwa Genesareti, na watu wengi walikuwa wamemzunguka wakisongana wanalisikiliza neno la Mungu. |
| Swedish | Jesus kallar Petrus vid ett stort fiskafänge, botar en spetälsk man och en lam man, kallar Levi, undervisar om fasta. |
| Uma | ¶ Hangkani, bula-na Yesus mokore hi wiwi' rano Genesaret, wori' tauna mome'upi' doko' mpo'epe Lolita Alata'ala. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wide": wideawake, wideawakes, wideband, widely, widemouthed, widen, widened, widener, wideners, wideness, widenesses, widening, widens, wideout, wideouts, wider, wides, widespread, widest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wide": citywide, countrywide, nationwide, overwide, planetwide, statewide, storewide, superwide, ultrawide, worldwide. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wide": rewiden, rewidened, rewidening, rewidens. (additional references) | |
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"Wide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iijde, Iwade, iwd, twide, wadie, waude, wdr, wede, wedne, Weede, weide, wibe, wice, wid, wida, widdel, wided, wides, widex, widg, widge, widi, widle, wido, Widzew, wie, wied, wige, wijd, wije, wilde, wildi, wime, winde, windeh, witu, Wixey, wrid, wride, wude, wudu, wyde, Wynde, zwide. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wide" (pronounced wī"d) |
| 3 | w ī" d | nationwide, worldwide. |
| 2 | -ī" d | abide, allied, alongside, applied, aside, astride, belied, beside, betide, bide, bride, chide, coincide, collide, complied, confide, cried, decide, decried, defied, denied, deride, died, lied, divide, dried, dyed, Eide, eyed, flied, fried, glide, guide, hide, implied, inside, misapplied, misguide, outside, oversupplied, pied, plied, preside, pride, pried, provide, relied, replied, reside, retried, ride, shied, side, sighed, slide, snide, spied, Stateside, stride, subdivide, subside, supplied, tide, tied, tried, untied, untried, upside, vide, vied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-w" | |
-1 letter: dew, die, wed. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, id, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-w" | |
+1 letter: dowie, dwine, weird, widen, wider, wides, wield, wifed, wiled, wined, wiped, wired, wised, wited, wived, wried. | |
+2 letters: dawtie, dewier, dewily, dewing, dwined, dwines, enwind, howdie, mildew, rewind, swiped, swived, twined, viewed, waddie, wadies, waifed, wailed, waired, waited, waived, wedgie, weirdo, weirds, weirdy, whiled, whined, whited, wicked, widder, widdie, widdle, widely, widens, widest, widget, wields, wieldy, wigged, wilder, willed, wilted, winced, winded, winder, windle, winged, winked, winned, wished, wisped, wissed, wisted, withed, witted, woodie. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Names: Company Usage 19. Expressions 20. Expressions: Internet | 21. Translations: Modern 22. Translations: Ancient 23. Bible Trace 24. Abbreviations | 25. Acronyms 26. Derivations 27. Rhymes 28. Anagrams | 29. Bibliography |
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