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单词 spacious
释义 spa·cious
\ˈspāshəs\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French spacieux, from Latin spatiosus, from spatium space, room + -osus -ous — more at speed
1. : marked by large or ample space:
 a. : vast in area; especially : having broad open expanses
  < contains within its spacious borders … many geographical, climatic, and economic divisions — H.S.Commager >
  < white villas … were scattered upon this spacious map — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
 b. : affording much room or space : not narrow or constricted : roomy
  < a land of villages and spacious countrysides — C.J.Brosnan >
  < moved to a more spacious, rambling residence on a hilltop — E.A.Weeks >
  < seemed so spacious and beautiful to stand high above the prairie and look around — O.E.Rölvaag >
2. : marked by largeness, magnitude, or scope:
 a. : comprehensive, wide, expansive
  < the spacious mountain air — R.M.Coates >
  < one great spacious golden morning followed another — J.C.Powys >
  < the topic is a spacious one, opening into many other fields — P.A.Wadsworth >
 b. : rich, varied, luxuriant or halcyon rather than circumscribed, inhibited, petty, or mean
  < spacious ease and generous enjoyment of life — Times Literary Supplement >
  < a more spacious and stimulating existence than the farm could offer — H.L.Mencken >
  < the spacious life of the wealthy in that time before the great wars — H.W.Baehr >
Synonyms: see ample
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