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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024breadth /brɛdθ, brɛtθ/USA pronunciation n. - Weights and Measuresthe measure of the distance from side to side of a solid object;
width: [uncountable]The table was ten feet in breadth.[countable]The breadths of the columns varied too much. - the extent, scope, or range of something:[uncountable]We hired her because of the breadth of her knowledge.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024breadth (bredth, bretth, breth),USA pronunciation n. - Weights and Measuresthe measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure;
width. - an extent or piece of something of definite or full width or as measured by its width:a breadth of cloth.
- freedom from narrowness or restraint;
liberality:a person with great breadth of view. - size in general;
extent. - Fine Art[Art.]a broad or general effect due to subordination of details or nonessentials.
- 1515–25; earlier bredeth, equivalent. to brede breadth (Middle English; Old English brǣdu, equivalent. to brǣd-, mutated variant of brād broad + -u noun, nominal suffix) + -th1; akin to German Breite, Gothic braidei
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged latitude, impartiality, open-mindedness.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged scope, range, reach, compass, span.
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