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Definition of Widely
Widely

In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles.

Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ widely in opinion.

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Widely Quotations

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Charles de Gaulle

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Petrarch

Widely Translations

widely in French is vaste
widely in German is weit, weitgehend
widely in Italian is vasto
widely in Latin is laxe, penitus, late
widely in Spanish is extensamente, vasto
widely in Swedish is brett


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