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# wide

adjective (wide, wider, widest); adverb (wide)

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

## Everyday

1. Wide means far from one side to the other. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m1)
2. Wide tells how far across something is, as in «3 feet wide». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m2)
3. Wide means covering many things, as in «a wide choice». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m3)
4. Wide (adverb) means fully or far, as in «wide open», «wide awake». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#m4)

### In the lessons

a length across, used for rectangles: so many feet wide and so many long; in everyday life, wide roads, rivers and doors; phrases «wide open», «wide awake», «far and wide», «worldwide», «width»

### Examples

- The garden is 10 feet wide and 20 feet long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x1)
- How wide is the room? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x2)
- The road is 30 feet wide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x3)
- Find the area of a field 8 yards wide and 12 long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x4)
- The river is too wide to swim across. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x5)
- She opened her eyes wide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x6)
- The baby was wide awake at midnight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x7)
- The shop has a wide choice of books. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x8)
- The door was wide open. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x9)
- People came from far and wide to see the show. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x10)
- They stopped in a wide courtyard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wide/#x11)

### Note

A measure of length across. Wide × long gives area; 2 × (wide + long) gives the distance around. Trap: read whether the question asks for area or perimeter. The noun is «width». The opposite is «narrow».

## In Jewish tradition

a length across, used for rectangles: so many feet wide and so many long; in everyday life, wide roads, rivers and doors; phrases «wide open», «wide awake», «far and wide», «worldwide», «width»

### Examples

- All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. (Writings LAM.3.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x1)
- Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? (Prophets ISA.57.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x2)
- I opened wide my mouth, and panted; for I longed for Thy commandments. (Writings PSA.119.131, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wide/#x3)

### Note

A measure of length across. Wide × long gives area; 2 × (wide + long) gives the distance around. Trap: read whether the question asks for area or perimeter. The noun is «width». The opposite is «narrow».

## On Mova

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