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Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- We walked down a wide corridor.
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Large in scope.
- The inquiry had a wide remit.
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Overweight, obese.derogatoryhumorousslang
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Operating at the side of the playing area.
- That team needs a decent wide player.
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On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
- Two balls before lunch, he bowled a wide.
- Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
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Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.dated
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Vast, great in extent, extensive.Northern-EnglandScotlandarchaic
- The wide, lifeless expanse.
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Located some distance away; distant, far.obsolete
- 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
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Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.obsolete
- 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.
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Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- a wide character; a wide stream
syn. broad · thick · wide
ant. narrow · thin · skinny · long · scrawny