Wide-spread

adj

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Definitions

Adjective

1
Alternative spelling of widespread. alt-of, alternative
"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."

Synonyms

distributed extensive far flung accepted ample amplitudinous

Example

"When I die, let me be buried in my beloved Ukraine, my tomb upon a grave-mound high, amid the wide-spread plain."

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