Definition of Wide

Wide

Having or showing a wide difference between the highest and lowest price, amount of supply, etc.; as, a wide opening; wide prices, where the prices bid and asked differ by several points.

Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.

Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.

Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding.

Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide.

Remote; distant; far.

Far from truth, from propriety, from necessity, or the like.

On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the mouth organs; -- opposed to primary as used by Mr. Bell, and to narrow as used by Mr. Sweet. The effect, as explained by Mr. Bell, is due to the relaxation or tension of the pharynx; as explained by Mr. Sweet and others, it is due to the action of the tongue. The wide of / (/ve) is / (/ll); of a (ate) is / (/nd), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13-15.

To a distance; far; widely; to a great distance or extent; as, his fame was spread wide.

So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

So as to be or strike far from, or on one side of, an object or purpose; aside; astray.

That which is wide; wide space; width; extent.

That which goes wide, or to one side of the mark.

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Pope John Paul II

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
Johnny Cash

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
Dave Barry

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
Arthur Ashe

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
Mikhail Bakunin