Usually means: Having great extent from side.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word wide:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. wide: Merriam-Webster
  2. wide: Cambridge Essential British English Dictionary
  3. wide: Cambridge English Dictionary
  4. WIDE, Wide (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. wide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  6. wide: Wiktionary
  7. wide: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  8. wide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  9. wide: Oxford English Dictionary
  10. Wide, Wide (cricket): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. wide, wide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  12. wide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  13. wide: Collins English Dictionary
  14. wide: Vocabulary.com
  15. wide: Wordnik
  16. -wide, wide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  17. -wide, wide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  18. wide: Infoplease Dictionary
  19. -wide, wide: Dictionary.com
  20. wide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  21. Wide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  22. wide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  23. wide: Rhymezone
  24. wide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. wide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  26. WIDE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  27. wide: FreeDictionary.org
  28. wide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  29. -wide, wide: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wide (cricket), -wide, wide: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wide (cricket), -wide, wide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WIDE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. -wide, wide: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wide, wide: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wide: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. wide: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Wide: Sports Definitions

(Note: See wideness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a large physical extent from side to side.
adjective:  Large in scope.
adjective:  (slang, derogatory, humorous) Overweight, obese.
adjective:  (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
adjective:  On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.
adjective:  (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
adjective:  (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
adjective:  (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.
adjective:  (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
adjective:  (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
adjective:  (British, slang, only in "wide boy") Sharp-witted.
adverb:  extensively
adverb:  completely
adverb:  away from or to one side of a given goal
adverb:  So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
noun:  (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

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