wide

Meaning

Adj

1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
2. Large in scope.
3. 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. Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
6. Vast, great in extent, extensive.
7. (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.
8. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
9. Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
10. (slang) Sharp-witted.

Adv

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

Noun

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/waɪd/

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 separate, divide”), a dissimilated univerbation from *dwi- (“apart, asunder, in two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Danish vid (“wide”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin dīvidō (“separate, sunder”), Latin vītō (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.