Wide-spread
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wide-spread is an adjective meaning Alternative spelling of widespread.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of widespread.
Example Sentences
"[…] a danger that the strongest and wisest of mankind, in striving to attain to a complete mastery over Nature, should destroy her simplest and widest-spread gifts […]"
High brick walls stand where once stood that rosy and graceful tree; and if there be one object more dreary than another, it is a high, blank brick wall: as little vestige is there left of the wide-spread common.
Word Forms
- wider-spread
- widest-spread
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include broad, spreading, stretching, wide, wide-scale, farreaching.
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