breadth

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/bɹɛdθ//bɹɛtθ//bɹɛθ/

noun

The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.

“expand one’s breadth of marketing”

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widthextentrangescopesizecomprehensivenesslargeness
OriginMiddle English bredthe →
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Meanings

nounbreadth (countable and uncountable, plural breadths)

plural breadths

  1. countableuncountableThe extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.

    The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.

    1 more example

    The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.

    1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122

    Synonyms: width

  2. countableuncountableA piece of fabric of standard width.
  3. countableuncountableScope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.

    expand one’s breadth of marketing

    1 more example

    "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."

    2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023

    Synonyms: extent, range, scope, size

  4. countableuncountableartA style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
  5. countableuncountablegraph theoryThe length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.

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width

nounScope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.

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extentrangescopesize

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe capacity to understand a broad range of topics

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comprehensivenesslargeness
Broader
intelligence

nounthe extent of something from side to side

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width
Broader
dimension
Also see
beambroad-mindednessbroadnesscomprehensivenesslargenesswidth

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbredthe
  2. Englishbreadth

From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Norwegian Bokmål bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”).

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Translations

Bulgarian ширина́, широта́
  • ширина́ (širiná)piece of fabric of standard width
  • широта́ (širotá)scope, range
  • разма́х (razmáh)scope, range
  • обхва́т (obhvát)scope, range
German Breite
  • Breitescope, range
Russian ширина́, поло́тнище
  • ширина́ (širiná)piece of fabric of standard width
  • поло́тнище (polótnišče)piece of fabric of standard width
  • широта́ (širotá)scope, range
  • разма́х (razmáx)scope, range
  • обхва́т (obxvát)scope, range
  • объём (obʺjóm)scope, range
Scottish Gaelic leud, farsaingeachd
  • leudscope, range
  • farsaingeachdscope, range
Swedish bredd
  • breddscope, range

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with breadth

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Sounds the same

breath(one pronunciation)

Anagrams

Bethard
Cite this entry
APA

breadth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breadth

MLA

“breadth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breadth. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “breadth,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breadth.

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