wide

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /waɪd/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /wɑed/

Adjective

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

1. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
   • We walked down a wide corridor.
2. Large in scope.
   • The inquiry had a wide remit.
3. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
   • That team needs a decent wide player.
4. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
   • Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide.
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.
   • The wide, lifeless expanse.
7. (obsolete) Located some distance away; 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.
   • a wide character; a wide stream
10. (Scotland, slang) Antagonistic, provocative.

Adverb

wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)

1. extensively
   • He travelled far and wide.
2. completely
   • He was wide awake.
3. 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.
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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwiː.de/

Adverb

wīde

1. widely, afar, far and wide
   • wīdfērende ― coming from afar