breadth
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3.9
- noun
- /brɛdθ/
:
anchura
- That box has three dimensions: length, breadth and height.
- breadth and depth
- length and breadth
- breadth and width
So we came within a hair's breadth of World War Three.
- So we came within a hair's breadth of World War Three.
- It, it, it, it is a length which has no breadth and no depth.
- But that's got length, it's got height and it's got breadth.
- The what they teach now and do now is not even a hair's breadth of semblance to what they did originally.
- And and in that race to the finish, success or failure has to hang by a hair's breadth.
- First one is the breadth of his shoulders, potentially because of all of the weight training he'd done through wrestling in the gymnasia.
Examples
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An analysis of the depth and breadth of e-book use is provided later to help frame that discussion.
Academic text (2015) -
This table has a maximum breadth of two meters, making it suitable for large dining rooms.
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Throughout the length and breadth of the land, we followed him.
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Your men want to go home, and to get home they need to cross the entire breadth of the Roman Empire.
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We entered a room that extended the entire breadth of the mansion's west wing.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the UK we have found victims in the big cities, in the the market towns, in the villages, in the countryside, the length and breadth of this country.
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And he said unto me, to measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof and what is the length thereof.
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The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits... the breadth of it 50 cubits... and the height of it 30 cubits.
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The breadth of the river can change dramatically depending on the season and rainfall.
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We need to check the breadth of this fabric before cutting it for the curtains.
Synonyms
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1.0
Distance across something from one side to the other
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2.5
Great width of a place like a road or river
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2.2
A large distance or range across something
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
The skull's widest measurement as a percent of its longest measurement
- Archaic
A small distance equal to the width of a finger, often used to show a very small amount
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Breadth comes from an old English word that meant 'broad' or 'wide', and it shares the same root as the common word broad. So breadth is the distance from one side to the other — the measurement of how wide something is.