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say it: wahyd
wide is an adjective and adverb meaning "having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other". It carries 11 recorded senses.
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
“wide roads”
“a wide necktie”
“wide margins”
“three feet wide”
“a river two miles broad”
“broad shoulders”
“a broad river”
broad in scope or content
“across-the-board pay increases”
“an all-embracing definition”
“blanket sanctions against human-rights violators”
“an invention with broad applications”
“a panoptic study of Soviet nationality”
“granted him wide powers”
not on target
“the kick was wide”
“the arrow was wide of the mark”
“a claim that was wide of the truth”
with or by a broad space
“stand with legs wide apart”
“ran wide around left end”
to the fullest extent possible
“open your eyes wide”
“with the throttle wide open”
far from the intended target
“the arrow went wide of the mark”
“a bullet went astray and killed a bystander”
to or over a great extent or range; far
“wandered wide through many lands”
“he traveled widely”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wide come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.