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wide-spread, a.
(ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd: stress var.)
(Also as one word, without hyphen.)
[f. wide adv. + spread, pa. pple. of spread v.]
Spread widely (lit. and fig.).
1. Extended over or occupying a wide space; broad in spatial extent.
1735Somerville Chase i. 250 Strait Hams, and wide-spread Thighs. 1816Wordsw. Ode, ‘Who rises on the banks of Seine’ 4 How sweet to rest her wide-spread wings beneath! 1863A. C. Ramsay Phys. Geog. 124 On the western parts of the Weald,..there are some very wide-spread heaths. 1878Hardy Ret. Native i. iii, A wide-spread woman whose stays creaked like shoes whenever she stooped or turned.
2. Distributed over a wide region; occurring in many places or among many persons; extensively or generally diffused.
1705Berkeley Commonpl. Bk. Wks. 1871 IV. 434 The vast, wide-spread, universal cause of our mistakes. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. ii, The cardinal symptom of the whole wide-spread malady. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 11 The Danish and Saxon tongues, both dialects of one widespread language, were blended together. 1880Wallace Isl. Life 29 The relics of once widespread types. 1913R. Lucas Ld. North II. 112 The demand for economical reform was..widespread.
So (irreg.) wide-spreaded a. rare.
1821Keats Lamia i. 354 The wide-spreaded night above her towers. |