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Definition wide

Etymology

From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English w?d (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *w?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *w?- (“apart, asunder, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *weye- (“to drive, separate”). Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víđur (“wide”), Latin d?vid? (“separate, sunder”), Latin v?t? (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.

Adjective

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

  1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
  2. Large in scope.
  3. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
  4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
  5. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
  6. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
  7. Remote; distant; far.
  8. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
  9. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

Adverb

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

  1. extensively
  2. completely
  3. away from a given goal
  4. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

Noun

wide (plural wides)

  1. (cricket) 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


Results 382 Words with the letters WIDE

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VIEWED 14
WADDIE 11
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WINDLE 12
WINGED 13
WINKED 15
WINNED 12
WISHED 12
WISPED 13
WISSED 10
WISTED 10
WITHED 12
WITTED 10
WOODIE 10
5 letter words with the letters WIDE 
DWINE 10
WIDEN 10
WIELD 10
WIFED 12
WILED 10
WINED 10
WIPED 12
WIVED 13
4 letter words with the letters WIDE 
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3 letter words with the letters WIDE 
DEW 7
DIE 4
WED 7
2 letter words with the letters WIDE 
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DI 3
ED 3
ID 3
WE 5

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