wide

Definition

  • adjective: extending a great distance from one side to the other
  • adjective: having great extent
  • usually used in combination
  • synonyms: vast, broad, extended

Examples

  • Police conducted a neighborhood-'wide' search for the suspect. [=police searched for the suspect throughout the neighborhood]

  • It appears that the governor's race is still 'wide open'. [=any of the candidates could win]

  • It was quite late, but the children were still 'wide awake'. [=not tired at all]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) This place is not really one place and also is not the other place. It's bits of both! - What is that? - That's where we're going. Holly said there was a wide, wide heaven Who are you? It's over. Come with me. I don't know you. Why are you here? (..)
    2009 The Lovely Bones