width

The state of being wide.

Noun

  1. The state of being wide.
  2. The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
  3. A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
  4. The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
  5. The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.
    • Manchester United like to play with width.
    • England looked to put width on the ball after the restart, Armitage very nearly going over in the corner only for the video referee to decide his foot was in touch. But Armitage did get on the score-sheet five minutes...

Origin

PIE word *dwóh₁ From wide + -th (abstract nominal suffix), possibly by analogy with Old Norse vídd (“width”), though this is unlikely, as the word is not attested before the end of the 16th century and was historically unknown in Scots and the traditional dialect of Northern England, where one would expect Old Norse influence to be the strongest (these varieties traditionally employed wideness instead). Replaced Middle English wide, wyde (“width”).

Forms

widths

Synonyms

breadth broadness thickness wideness width

Antonyms

length

Hypernyms

physical property size

Hyponyms

bore calibre diameter

Related

breadth wide wideness

Derived

clique width finger width fixed-width full-width half-width homogeneous width instrumental width narrow-width effect off-width semi-width track width width restriction zero-width zero-width space