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Widespread

//ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

    "widespread belief"

  2. 2
    Spread far apart. uncommon

    "Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches"

Adjective
  1. 1
    distributed over a considerable extent wordnet
  2. 2
    widely circulated or diffused wordnet

Etymology

From wide + spread.

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