breadth

Meaning

Noun

• The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.
• A piece of fabric of standard width.
• Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
• A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
• The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.

Related

Similar words

• width
• extent, range, scope, size

Origin

• . Equivalent to broad + -th. Cognate with Scots bredth ("breadth"), Saterland Frisian Bratte, West Frisian breedte, Dutch breedte ("breadth"), German Low German Breddte, Breddt, German Breite ("breadth"), Danish bredde ("breadth"), Norwegian Bokmål bredde ("breadth"), Swedish bredd ("breadth").