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# wide

«wide» in Mova's school dictionary: **far from one side to the other** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (wide, wider, widest); adverb (wide)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wide means far from one side to the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m1)

2) Wide tells how far across something is, as in «3 feet wide». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m2)

3) Wide means covering many things, as in «a wide choice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m3)

4) Wide (adverb) means fully or far, as in «wide open», «wide awake». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a length across, used for rectangles: so many feet wide and so many long; in everyday life, wide roads, rivers and doors; phrases «wide open», «wide awake», «far and wide», «worldwide», «width»

### examples

- The garden is 10 feet wide and 20 feet long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x1)
- How wide is the room? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x2)
- The road is 30 feet wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x3)
- Find the area of a field 8 yards wide and 12 long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x4)
- The river is too wide to swim across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x5)
- She opened her eyes wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x6)
- The baby was wide awake at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x7)
- The shop has a wide choice of books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x8)
- The door was wide open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x9)
- People came from far and wide to see the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x10)
- They stopped in a wide courtyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x11)

### note

A measure of length across. Wide × long gives area; 2 × (wide + long) gives the distance around. Trap: read whether the question asks for area or perimeter. The noun is «width». The opposite is «narrow».

### In the corpora

- [The Mona Lisa is about 77 centimetres tall and 53 centimetres wide; Guernica is almost 8 metres wide.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/12/)
- [A loose wide tail wag usually means a happy dog, but a stiff high wag can mean the dog is tense.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/13/)
- [A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/8/)
- [Mandrills have very long canine teeth, and a wide yawn shows them off as a warning to rivals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/12/)
- [Anglerfish and gulper eels can swallow prey as big as themselves or bigger, because their mouths open very wide and their stomachs stretch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.