wide

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a large physical extent from side to side.
• Large in scope.
• 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.
• Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
• Vast, great in extent, extensive.
• Located some distance away; distant, far.
• Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
• Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
• Antagonistic, provocative.

Adverb

• 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.

Noun

• 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

Related

Opposite words

• narrow (regarding empty area)
• thin (regarding occupied area)
• skinny (sometimes offensive, regarding body width)

Narrower meaning words

• Africa-wide
• America-wide
• Asia-wide
• EU-wide
• Europe-wide
• kilometre-wide
• km-wide
• metre-wide
• m-wide
• nation-wide
• region-wide
• site-wide
• space-wide
• system-wide
• US-wide
• worldwide

Origin

• From Middle English wid, wyd, from Old English wīd ("wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far"), from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwi- ("apart, asunder, in two"), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ("two").
• Cognate with Scots wyd, wid, West Frisian wiid ("broad; wide"), Dutch wijd ("wide; large; broad"), German weit ("far; wide; broad"), Swedish vid ("wide"), Icelandic víður ("wide"), Latin dīvidō ("separate, sunder"), Latin vītō ("avoid, shun"). Related to widow.