Synonyms for breadth
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bredth, bretth, breth |
| Phonetic Transcription : brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθ |
Top 10 synonyms for breadth Other synonyms for the word breadth
Définition of breadth
Origin :- 1520s, alteration of brede "breadth," from Old English brædu "breadth, width, extent," from bræd; probably by analogy of long/length.
- noun width
- noun extent
- It is difficult for me to fix positively the breadth of this Pass.
- Extract from : « The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California » by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
- Betty believed that she did not change countenance by a hair's breadth.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- For one of his shafts missed the mark by the breadth of two fingers.
- Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
- They have length, and breadth, and outline: have they nothing to do with depth?
- Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
- You got it up over the length and breadth of this whole land.
- Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
- Its breadth is from thirty to forty yards, and its depth from one to three yards.
- Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
- For a print, from the mode of inking, has a breadth and unity which the drawing never can have.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- The mountains could be seen as clearly as though they were but a hand's-breadth away.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- I have lost no old likings or dislikings; my memory has not failed me by a hair's-breadth.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- He had learned it in all its truth and breadth since we last parted.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
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