A tract or area as defined by its breadth; a wide compass or extent. Obsolete.

transferred. A large level tract (of some material substance or aggregate of objects).

figurative. An immense or boundless expanse of something. Also (hyperbolically): a very great or indefinite quantity; (frequently in plural) lots of.

= vastness, n. 3.

A vast or immense space. Chiefly poetic, and frequently with adjectives.

A vast or immense space. rare.

A vast or immense space.

Immense, boundless, or vast extent; immensity.

In plural and with of. A wide or open area, region, etc.; a vast expanse. Obsolete.

A vast extent or space.

The Atlantic ocean; also figurative.

Anything that is wide, sometimes contrasted with a corresponding thing that is narrow; esp. a wide or open space or region.