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.
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
We walked down a wide corridor.
- Large in scope.
2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
The inquiry had a wide remit.
- (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
That team needs a decent wide player.
- 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.
1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.
- (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
- (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
The wide, lifeless expanse.
- (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
- (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
1549 April 22 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Syxte Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, whiche He Preached before K. Edward [VI], the XII. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 75, verso:But I tell you, it is farre wyde, that the people haue ſuche iudgmentes, the Byſhoppes they coulde laughe at it.
[1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC:How wide is all this long pretence!
- (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
- (British, slang) Antagonistic, shrewd, unscrupulous, provocative.
1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time, page 31: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.
- narrow (regarding empty area)
- thin (regarding occupied area)
- skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)
having a large physical extent from side to side
- Afrikaans: wyd, breed (af)
- Aklanon: eapad
- Albanian: i gjerë (sq)
- Arabic: عَرِيض m (ʕarīḍ)
- Egyptian Arabic: واسع (wāseʕ), عريض (ʕarīḍ)
- Moroccan Arabic: عريض (ʕariḍ)
- Armenian: լայն (hy) (layn)
- Aromanian: largu, lat
- Assamese: বহল (bohol)
- Asturian: anchu (ast)
- Azerbaijani: geniş (az)
- Bashkir: киң (kiñ)
- Basque: zabal
- Belarusian: шыро́кі (be) (šyróki)
- Bengali: প্রশস্ত (bn) (prośosto)
- Bikol Central: halakbang (bcl)
- Breton: ledan (br)
- Brunei Malay: libar
- Bulgarian: широ́к (bg) (širók)
- Burmese: ကျယ် (my) (kyai)
- Catalan: ample (ca)
- Cebuano: lapad
- Chechen: шуьйра (šüüra)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 闊/阔 (fut3)
- Mandarin: 寬/宽 (zh) (kuān), 寬廣的/宽广的 (zh) (kuānguǎng de), 寬闊的/宽阔的 (zh) (kuānkuò de)
- Cornish: ledan
- Crimean Tatar: keñ, keniş
- Czech: široký (cs)
- Dalmatian: luarc
- Danish: bred (da), vid
- Dutch: wijd (nl), breed (nl)
- Egyptian: (wsḫ)
- Esperanto: larĝa (eo)
- Estonian: lai (et)
- Faroese: breiður (fo), víður
- Finnish: leveä (fi), laaja (fi)
- French: large (fr) m or f
- Friulian: larc, larg
- Galician: largo (gl), ancho (gl)
- Georgian: ვრცელი (vrceli), ფართო (parto), ფართე (parte), განიერი (ganieri)
- German: breit (de), weit (de)
- Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs)
- Greek: ευρύς (el) m (evrýs), ευρεία f (evreía), φαρδύς (el) (fardýs)
- Ancient: εὐρύς (eurús), πλατύς (platús)
- Hebrew: רָחָב (he) (rakháv)
- Hindi: चौड़ा (cauṛā)
- Hungarian: széles (hu)
- Icelandic: breiður (is), víður (is)
- Ido: larja (io)
- Ilocano: akaba (of tangible objects)
- Indonesian: lebar (id)
- Ingrian: levviä
- Ingush: шера (šera)
- Interlingua: large
- Irish: leathan, fairsing
- Old Irish: lethan
- Italian: largo (it), ampio (it)
- Japanese: 広い (ja) (ひろい, hiroi), 幅広い (ja) (はばひろい, habahiroi)
- Javanese: amba
- Kabuverdianu: largu
- Kalmyk: өргн (örgn)
- Karachay-Balkar: кенг (keñ)
- Karaim: kień
- Kashubian: szeroczi
- Kazakh: кең (keñ)
- Khakas: чалбах (çalbax)
- Khmer: ល្ហ (km) (lhɑɑ)
- Korean: 넓다 (ko) (neolda), 넓은 (ko) (neolbeun)
- Kumyk: генг (geñ)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پان (ckb) (pan)
- Northern Kurdish: pan (ku), pehn (ku), fire (ku), berfire (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кең (ky) (keŋ)
- Lao: ກວ້າງ (kuāng)
- Latgalian: plots
- Latin: lātus (la) m
- Latvian: plats (lv)
- Lithuanian: platus
- Low German: breed, breet
- Luxembourgish: breet (lb)
- Macedonian: широк (širok)
- Malay: lebar (ms)
- Maltese: wiesgħa
- Manchu: ᠣᠨᠴᠣ (onco)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: кумда (kumda)
- Mongolian: өргөн (mn) (örgön)
- Navajo: hóteel
- Nivkh: вердь (verd̦)
- Nogai: кенъ (keñ)
- Norman: large m or f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vid (no), bred (no), brei (no)
- Nynorsk: vid, brei
- Occitan: larg (oc), ample (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: широкъ (širokŭ)
- Old East Slavic: широкъ (širokŭ)
- Old English: wīd, brād, sīd
- Old Javanese: lĕba
- Oroqen: ərpə
- Ossetian: уӕрӕх (wæræx)
- Papiamentu: largu
- Persian: پهن (fa) (pahn), گسترده (fa) (gostarde), وسیع (fa) (vasi'), فراخ (fa) (farâx)
- Pitjantjatjara: lipi
- Plautdietsch: breet
- Polabian: sårüke
- Polish: szeroki (pl)
- Portuguese: largo (pt), amplo (pt)
- Rapa Nui: lau
- Romani: buxlo
- Romanian: larg (ro), lat (ro)
- Romansch: lartg
- Russian: широ́кий (ru) (širókij)
- Sanskrit: पृथु (sa) (pṛthú)
- Sardinian: lalgu
- Scottish Gaelic: leathann, farsaing, (of specified width) a leud
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: шѝрок
- Roman: šìrok (sh)
- Shor: кең
- Sicilian: largu (scn)
- Slovak: široký
- Slovene: širok (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: šyroki
- Upper Sorbian: šěroki
- Southern Altai: кеҥ (keŋ), јалбак (ǰalbak)
- Spanish: ancho (es), amplio (es)
- Sundanese: rubak
- Swedish: vid (sv), bred (sv)
- Tagalog: malapad
- Tajik: васеъ (tg) (vaseʾ)
- Tarantino: larghe
- Tatar: киң (kiñ)
- Telugu: వెడల్పైన (te) (veḍalpaina)
- Tetum: luak
- Thai: กว้างใหญ่ (th) (gwâang-yài), กว้าง (th) (gwâang)
- Tocharian B: pärkare
- Turkish: vasi (tr), geniş (tr)
- Turkmen: giň
- Tày: cải
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎈𐎁 (rḥb)
- Ukrainian: широ́кий (šyrókyj)
- Urdu: چوڑا (cauṛā)
- Uyghur: keng (Latin)
- Uzbek: keng (uz)
- Vietnamese: rộng (vi)
- Volapük: vidik (vo)
- Walloon: lådje (wa) m or f
- Waray-Waray: halapad
- Welsh: llydan (cy)
- West Frisian: breed, wiid
- Yiddish: ברייט (breyt)
- Zealandic: breêd, wied
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operating at the side of the playing area
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- extensively
He travelled far and wide.
- completely
He was wide awake.
- 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.
2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[1]: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.
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
wide (plural wides)
- (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
wīd + -e
wīde
- widely, afar, far and wide
- wīdfērende ― coming from afar