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Definition of Breadth
Breadth

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

Related Definitions:
Across, Angles, Any, At, Distance, From, Length, Measure, Of, Or, Right, Side, Surface, The, Thing, To, Width


Breadth Quotations

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

Breadth Translations

breadth in French is travers
breadth in German is Breite
breadth in Latin is amplitudo


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