breadth

Speech parts

1. breadth - Noun

2. breadth - Adjective

Meaning

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

width range size comprehensiveness extent scope largeness area space amount distance length degree compass bigness

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Antonyms

length transverse height depth vacuum portrait

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Hypernyms

intelligence dimension

Hyponyms

compass beam narrowness capaciousness roominess broadness

Phrases with the word

by a hair's breadth acre's breadth breadth of view appearing to have length, breadth, and depth a hair's breadth cable breadth

Anagrams

Bethard

Examples

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. Margaret Cho

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine! Helen Keller

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. Stephen Jay Gould

Better April showers than the breadth of the ocean in gold. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

breadseller breadstick breadstuff breadth index breadth indicator breadth of accommodation