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# expanse

noun (an expanse, expanses)

«expanse» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An expanse is a very wide, open area of land, sea, sky or something else. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#m1)
2. It suggests something large and empty or smooth stretching out far. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#m2)

### In the lessons

Descriptive writing about landscapes: deserts, oceans, snow, sky. Geography lessons. Phrases: a vast expanse, an expanse of water, wide expanse.

### Examples

- A vast expanse of sand stretched in front of us. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#x1)
- We looked out over the blue expanse of the ocean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#x2)
- The plane flew over a white expanse of snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#x3)
- An expanse of green fields surrounded the farm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#x4)
- Stars filled the dark expanse of the sky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#x5)
- The prairie was a huge, flat expanse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#x6)
- Tartarus was a vast and gloomy expanse, as far below Hades as the earth is distant from the skies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Not the same as expense (cost) — a common confusion. Related to expand.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «expanse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expanse/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«expanse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/expanse.html) on Mova free.