Definitions for breadth

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breadth breadth

Spelling: [bredth, bretth, breth]

IPA: /brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθ/

Breadth is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in breadth (abdehrt).

Definitions for breadth

noun

1. the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width.
2. an extent or piece of something of definite or full width or as measured by its width:
3. freedom from narrowness or restraint; liberality:
4. size in general; extent.
5. Art. a broad or general effect due to subordination of details or nonessentials.

Origin of breadth

1515-25; earlier bredeth, equivalent to brede breadth (Middle English; Old English brǣdu, equivalent to brǣd-, mutated variant of brād broad +-u noun suffix) +

Examples for breadth

Betty believed that she did not change countenance by a hair's breadth.

A day spent on Ipanema offers a fascinating vision of the breadth and diversity of Rio society, rich and poor.

For one of his shafts missed the mark by the breadth of two fingers.

She is shocked by the breadth of the havoc unleashed on Gaza and is devastated by the price Palestinians have paid.

Zoe Saldana has also recently praised sci-fi movies for the depth and breadth of women in its ensembles.

It is difficult for me to fix positively the breadth of this Pass.

You got it up over the length and breadth of this whole land.

They have length, and breadth, and outline: have they nothing to do with depth?

However, there was sharp disagreement over the breadth of the problem.

A U.S. diplomat once spoke with bitterness of the breadth of his power when negotiating with an uncooperative dictator.