expanse

Collocations

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(noun.)

ADJ

broad, endless, great, huge, large, vast, wide

The great expanse of ocean stretched before them as far as they could see.

barren, bleak, empty

The desert stretched out as an empty expanse under the burning sun.

flat

The vast flat expanse of the prairie stretched out endlessly before the travelers.

open | cold

grey, white

The grey expanse of ocean stretched endlessly before the ship's bow.

shining

The ocean stretched before us as a vast shining expanse under the afternoon sun.

PREP

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Definitions

noun

1

A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.

That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.

2

An amount of spread or stretch.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a wide scope

sweep

noun — the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boun

area

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and

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02

Soon, the expanse of the galaxy became reminiscent of ancient Polynesian migrational waves throughout the Pacific Ocean.

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03

Every night, we all gaze up at the magnificent starry sky above us thinking about the vastness and the expanse of space... it really is quite a bit to take in.

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Over the wide expanse there was no sound and no movement.

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In the sci-fi franchise The Expanse, human civilization extends throughout the Solar System.

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06

The university has a large expanse of forest.

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