单词 | wide-watered |
释义 | wide-wateredadj. Chiefly poetic or literary. Having a wide expanse of water; watered over a wide extent; bordered or crossed by wide waters. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > [adjective] > having wide expanse of water wide-watered1645 sheety1748 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 40 I hear the far-off Curfeu sound, Over som wide-water'd shoar. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 761 Amidst the Plain of some wide-water'd Fen. 1749 G. West tr. Pindar Odes Pythian i. 92 On fair Himera's wide-water'd shores, Thy sons, Dinomenes, my lyre demand. 1849 E. Fitzgerald Let. 4 Nov. (1980) I. 652 The wide-watered and wooded valley below. 1866 J. F. W. Herschel tr. Homer Iliad v. 103 Tracing his high descent from the God of the river Alphæus, In the wide-watered realms of the Pylian land. 1904 E. Rickert Reaper ix. 100 Low-lying, wide-watered Balta. 2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 19 Jan. 9 We jump into a small low boat..and roar off to the wide watered streets of the floating market. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1645 |
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