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wide

adj
/waɪd/US/wɑed/

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to divide, separate”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian widj (“wide”), Saterland Frisian wied (“wide”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Central Franconian weck, weit, wick, wiet (“distant, far, wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Luxembourgish weit (“wide”), wäit (“far”), Yiddish ווײַט (vayt, “distant, far”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vid (“wide”), Faroese and Icelandic víður (“wide”); also Breton gwez (“trees”), Cornish gwedh, gwëdh, gwydh, gwÿdh (“trees”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic fiodh (“timber, wood”), Manx fuygh (“timber, wood”), Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), Latin dīvidō (“to divide, separate”), Latgalian vyds (“middle”), Latvian vidus (“center, middle”), Lithuanian vidùs (“interior, inside; inward”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B wätk- (“to distinguish, separate”). Related to widow.

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻ — “to divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *wīdaz✻
  3. inherited from wīd — “wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”
  4. inherited from wid

Definitions

  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.

    • We walked down a wide corridor.
    • Over a wider region either side of the path of totality, a partial eclipse is seen.
    • Former Vice President Joe Biden's lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for president has rebounded, and now stands at its widest margin since April, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

  2. Large in scope.

    • The inquiry had a wide remit.
    • Three-way girls offered the widest array of services. One twenty-two-year-old prostitute declared to an undercover vice investigator in New York City, "I am a three-way girl."

  3. Overweight, obese.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. Operating at the side of the playing area.

      • That team needs a decent wide player.

    2. On one side or the other of the mark

      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.
      • Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.

    3. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs…

      Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

    4. Vast, great in extent, extensive.

      • The wide, lifeless expanse.

    5. Located some distance away

      Located some distance away; distant, far.

      • 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

    6. Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

      • 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.
      • How wide is all this long pretence!

    7. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional…

      Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

      • a wide character; a wide stream

    8. Sharp-witted.

      • But the first visitor to penetrate from the outside world proved to be Sergeant Williams; large and pink and scrubbed-looking; and for a little while Grant forgot about battles long ago and considered wide boys alive today.

    9. extensively

      • He travelled far and wide.

    10. completely

      • He was wide awake.

    11. away from or to one side of a given goal

      • The arrow fell wide of the mark.
      • A few shots were fired but they all went wide.
      • The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

    12. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides

      So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

      • And with his knee the dore he opens wide

    13. A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable

      A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

The neighborhood

Derived

all wool and a yard wide, a mile wide and an inch deep, blow wide open, by a wide margin, cast one's net far and wide, cast one's net wide, cut a wide swath, cut a wide swathe, en, far and wide, go wide, have someone's nose wide open, into the wide blue yonder, midwide, open wide, paint with a wide brush, spread one's net wide, to the wide, whole wide world, wide-angle, wide-angle converter, wide-angle lens, wide area network, wide-area network, wide awake, wide-awake, wide-awake hat, wide berth, wide-bodied, wide-body, wide boy, wide column store, wide-cut, wide-eyed, wide-field, wide-flung, wide-gab, wide game, wide-handed, wide-handedness · +21 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wide. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01wide02scope03opportunity04advancement05higher06university07undergraduate08student09studies10field

A definitional loop anchored at wide. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at wide

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA