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wide
English
Etymology
From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English w?d (“wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”), from Proto-Germanic *w?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *w?- (“apart, asunder, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *weye- (“to drive, separate”).
Cognate with Scots wyd, wid (“of great extent; vast”), West Frisian wiid (“broad; wide”), Dutch wijd (“wide; large; broad”), German weit (“far; wide; broad”), Swedish vid (“wide”), Icelandic víður (“wide”), Latin d?vid? (“separate, sunder”), Latin v?t? (“avoid, shun”). Related to widow.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /wa?d/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /w?ed/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Adjective
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- Having a large physical extent from side to side.
- Large in scope.
- (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
- On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
- Surely he shoots wide on the Bow-Hand.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
- I was but two bows wide.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far. [15th–19th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:
- Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place.
- 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...
- the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:
- (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
- April 12 1549, Hugh Latimer, sixth sermon preached before King Edward VI
- It is far wide that the people have such judgments.
- How wide is all this long pretence!
- April 12 1549, Hugh Latimer, sixth sermon preached before King Edward VI
- (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
Antonyms
- narrow (regarding empty area)
- thin (regarding occupied area)
- skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- width
Translations
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Adverb
wide (comparative wider, superlative widest)
- extensively
- completely
- away from or to one side of a given goal
- So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
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Derived terms
- wide-ranging
Translations
Noun
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
Old English
Etymology
w?d +? -e
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wi?.de/
Adverb
w?de
- widely, afar, far and wide
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munificent
English
Etymology
Back-formation from munificence, from Latin m?nificentia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /mju?n?f?sn?t/
Adjective
munificent (comparative more munificent, superlative most munificent)
- (of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 30:
- Tellson's Bank . . . was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
- 1974 April 8, "Politics: Milkmen Skimming Off More Cream," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- [M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S.
- 2008 March 20, Martin Filler, "Broad-Minded Museum," New York Review of Books (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 30:
- (of a gift, donation, etc.) Very generous; lavish.
- 1886, Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys, ch. 1:
- On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
- 1914, William MacLeod Raine, A Daughter of the Dons, ch. 25:
- It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift.
- 1969 April 11, "Business: Up, Up and Away with Wages," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years.
- 1886, Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys, ch. 1:
Synonyms
- bounteous, generous, liberal
Derived terms
- munificently
Related terms
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin munificus, munificens (“liberal”), from munus (“gift”) + facio (“I make”).
Adjective
munificent (comparative munificenter, superlative munificentst)
- generous
Inflection
Synonyms
- (generous): genereus, gul, goedgeefs, vrijgevig, royaal
Romanian
Etymology
From French munificent
Adjective
munificent m or n (feminine singular munificent?, masculine plural munificen?i, feminine and neuter plural munificente)
- munificent
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