far and wide

1. 1.

   over great areas or distances; everywhere

   “he traveled far and wide”

   “the news spread far and wide”

   “people came from far and near”

   “searched for the child far and near”

   Synonymsfar and near

Questions about far and wide

What does far and wide mean?

far and wide means "over great areas or distances; everywhere".

What is another word for far and wide?

Close synonyms include far and near. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is far and wide a common word?

far and wide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.