wide spot
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3.8
- noun
- /waɪd spɑt/
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- The woman steered her car onto the first wide spot in the road.
- a wide spot in the road
Examples
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We found a wide spot in the road where we could safely park the car.
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But Dad, this is just a wide spot in the road.
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Wide spot on the road.
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I generally like my riffing paired with riffable material, and the movie gets off to a horrible start when it spends the first quarter of its running time lingering by a wide spot in the road.
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The best place to stop for a break is a wide spot along the highway.
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She carefully turned into a wide spot off the busy road to let the traffic pass.
Synonyms
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1.6
A place beside a highway where drivers stop to rest and use toilets
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3.8
A paved area beside a main road where cars can stop briefly
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1.5
An area for leaving cars or other vehicles
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2.8
A wider part of a road where cars can stop or park
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6.8
A wider part of a road where cars can pull over
Antonyms
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a broad area at the side of a road where vehicles can stop' is directly and transparently built from 'wide' (broad) + 'spot' (location): together they denote a broad location, and in context ('on the road') the roadside sense is obvious. This compositional pattern is predictable and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun wide spot may come from a simple road image: a place where the road becomes wide at a spot so a car can pull to the side. That's why wide spot now means a broad place at the side of a road where vehicles can 'stop' or 'park temporarily'.