wide
Definition of wide:
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: adverb
Widely.
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part of speech: adjective
Having a great distance or extent between the sides; opposite of narrow; broad; remote; distant; in compound words, far; with great extent.
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part of speech: adverb
At a distance; with great extent, as, " the gates wide open stood".
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Common misspellings:
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- wite (1.4%)
- wided (17.6%)
- wiwde (2.7%)
- whide (12.2%)
- wwide (2.7%)
- wied (1.4%)
- ide (2.7%)
- waide (4.1%)
- wides (5.4%)
- wi (1.4%)
- wid (20.3%)
- wie (9.5%)
- wode (8.1%)
- wde (8.1%)
- wiev (1.4%)
- wilde (1.4%)
Usage examples for wide:
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But if the belt is a wide one a stretching clamp, such as shown in Fig.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II" – Joshua Rose -
As you say, the world is wide and your place is waiting."
"The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land" – Ralph Connor -
" Maybe that's a fire," said Bunny, wide awake now.
"Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods" – Laura Lee Hope -
The little girl came closer, her eyes wide and earnest.
"The Biography of a Prairie Girl" – Eleanor Gates
