widespread
Appearance
See also: wide-spread
English
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[edit]- (predicative) IPA(key): /ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (prenominal) IPA(key): /ˈwaɪdˌspɹɛd/
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Adjective
[edit]widespread (comparative widerspread or more widespread, superlative widestspread or most widespread)
- Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […] Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
Synonyms
[edit]- extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal; see also Thesaurus:widespread
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[edit]Translations
[edit]affecting a large area