wide-spread

A form of widespread — Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

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Meanings

adjectivewide-spread (comparative more wide-spread or wider-spread, superlative most wide-spread or widest-spread)

comparative more wide-spread · comparative wider-spread · superlative most wide-spread · superlative widest-spread

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of widespread.

    "[…] a danger that the strongest and wisest of mankind, in striving to attain to a complete mastery over Nature, should destroy her simplest and widest-spread gifts […]"

    1999, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, William Morris on Art and Socialism
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    High brick walls stand where once stood that rosy and graceful tree; and if there be one object more dreary than another, it is a high, blank brick wall: as little vestige is there left of the wide-spread common.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 231
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Chicago

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