swath
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- noun
- /swɑθ/
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franja
- The earthquake and resultant tsunami collapsed facilities and damaged infrastructure in a huge swath of northeast Japan.
- a large swath
- a wide swath
- a huge swath
Well, do you have large swaths of land in a home scale?
- Well, do you have large swaths of land in a home scale?
- What the United States was buying was the imperial rights to this huge swath of North America.
- So I'm jealous of that connection that someone like a park Ranger has with a swath of nature.
Examples
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During the storm, the tornado carved a wide swath of destruction through the small town.
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Long before Katrina laid the city low, a social cyclone had ravaged huge swaths of the city's storied neighborhoods.
Academic text (2007) -
Dropped off the face of the earth, disappeared into drug land... ...and with their special skills cut one hell of a swath through the competition.
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We started walking on the trail, a level white swath through the thick network of trees.
Fiction book (1991) -
From those initial contacts, we covered a wide swath of the town's demographic profile.
Academic text (2011) -
Though exact figures vary, large swaths of territory in the Southeast were depopulated.
Academic text (2000) -
The farmers cleared a broad swath of land to create new fields for planting crops.
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After the fire, a blackened swath of forest remained, stark against the untouched trees.
Synonyms
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4.6
A long narrow area that has the same weather or plants
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How Wide
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Etymology
Swath comes from an Old English word swæth meaning 'track' or 'path'. It was the long row left when a cutting tool moved through crops, so a swath today is a wide strip cut or cleared.