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 is the boulder strewn snout of the giant Baltoro glacier in the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan. It's the biggest mountain glacier on Earth - miles long and over miles wide. This huge ice-filled valley is so large it's clearly visible from space. This is the greatest concentration (..)
    2006 TvShow: Planet Earth Title: Mountains Season: 1 Episode 2
  • (..) this land was just as flat and as deep as the Danakil Depression. Molten lava rising from the earth's core forced up a huge dome of rock miles wide, the roof of Africa. Over millennia, rain and ice carved the rock into a landscape of spires and canyons. (..)
    2006 TvShow: Planet Earth Title: Mountains Season: 1 Episode 2