Expanse

//ɪkˈspæns// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.

    "That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens."

  2. 2
    a wide scope wordnet
  3. 3
    An amount of spread or stretch.
  4. 4
    the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary wordnet
  5. 5
    a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky wordnet

Etymology

From Latin expansum, from expandō.

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