WIDE, a.
1. Broad having a great or considerable distance or extent between the sides opposed to narrow as wide cloth a wide table a wide highway a wide bed a wide hall or entry. In this use, wide is distinguished from long, which refers to the extent or distance between the ends.
2. Broad having a great extent each way as a wide plain the wide ocean.
3. Remote distant. This position is very wide from the truth.
4. Broad to a certain degree as three feet wide.
WIDE, adv.
1. At a distance far. His fame was spread wide.
2. With great extent used chiefly in composition as wide-skirted meads wide-waving swords wide-wasting pestilence wide-spreading evil.
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