Dictionary
wide
Meaning
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- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- Large in scope.
- Operating at the side of the playing area.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
- Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- Vast, great in extent, extensive.
- (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.
- (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
- Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- (slang) Sharp-witted.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/waɪd/
Cognate with Western Frisian
wiid
Cognate with Dutch
wijd
Cognate with German
weit
Cognate with Latin
dīvidō
Cognate with Latin
vītō
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