breadth

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/bɹɛdθ/

noun 5

Collocations

(noun.) distance between two sides of sth

PREP

in ~

The river varies greatly in breadth as it flows through the valley.

PHRASES

the length and breadth of sth

People from the length and breadth of the country came to celebrate the festival.

(noun.) great extent or variety

ADJ

full, great, sheer

PHRASES

breadth of experience

Her breadth of experience in different countries made her an excellent travel guide.

breadth of interest/knowledge/understanding, breadth of mind, breadth of vision

Definitions

noun

The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.

The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.

The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.

A piece of fabric of standard width.

Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.

expand one’s breadth of marketing

"The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."

A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.

The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the extent of something from side to side

width

noun — the capacity to understand a broad range of topics

comprehensiveness
largeness

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

by a hair's breadth

By a narrow margin.

hair's breadth

A very small amount or distance.

hair's-breadth escapes [narrow escapes]

Example Bank

The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.

Wiktionary

The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.

Wiktionary

expand one’s breadth of marketing

Wiktionary

We escaped death by a hair's breadth.

Tatoeba · #23059

Divide its length and breadth by ten.

Tatoeba · #45021

The village lay in a valley about half a mile in breadth.

Tatoeba · #45566

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