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IPA: /sprɛd/

Spread is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in spread (adeprs).

Definitions for spread

noun

1. an act or instance of spreading:
2. expansion, extension, or diffusion:
3. the extent of spreading:
4. Finance. the difference between the prices bid and asked of stock or a commodity for a given time. a type of straddle in which the call price is placed above and the put price is placed below the current market quotation. the difference between any two prices or rates for related costs: Stock Exchange. a broker's profit or the difference between his or her buying and selling price. any difference between return on assets and costs of liabilities.
5. capacity for spreading:
6. a distance or range, as between two points or dates:
7. a stretch, expanse, or extent of something:
8. a cloth covering for a bed, table, or the like, especially a bedspread.
9. Informal. an abundance of food set out on a table; feast.
10. any food preparation for spreading on bread, crackers, etc., as jam or peanut butter.
11. Aeronautics. wingspan.
12. Also called layout. Journalism. (in newspapers and magazines) an extensive, varied treatment of a subject, consisting primarily either of a number of cuts (picture spread) or of a major story and several supplementary stories, usually extending across three or more columns. Compare double truck.
13. an advertisement, photograph, article, or the like, covering several columns, a full page, or two facing pages of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.:
14. two facing pages, as of a newspaper, magazine, or book.
15. landed property, as a farm or ranch.
16. lay1 (def 40).
17. point spread.

Idioms

1. spread oneself thin, to carry on so many projects simultaneously that none is done adequately, or that one's health suffers:

adjective

1. Jewelry. (of a gem) cut with the table too large and the crown too shallow for maximum brilliance; swindled.
2. Phonetics. (of the opening between the lips) extended laterally. Compare rounded (def 2), unrounded.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
2. to stretch out or unfurl in the air, as folded wings, a flag, etc. (often followed by out).
3. to distribute over a greater or a relatively great area of space or time (often followed by out):
4. to display or exhibit the full extent of; set out in full:
5. to dispose or distribute in a sheet or layer:
6. to apply in a thin layer or coating:
7. to overlay or cover with something:
8. to set or prepare (a table), as for a meal.
9. to extend or distribute over a region, place, period of time, among a group, etc.
10. to send out, scatter, or shed in various directions, as sound, light, etc.
11. to scatter abroad; diffuse or disseminate, as knowledge, news, disease, etc.:
12. to move or force apart:
13. to flatten out:
14. Phonetics. to extend the aperture between (the lips) laterally, so as to reduce it vertically, during an utterance. to delabialize. Compare round1 (def 55c), unround.

verb (used without object)

1. to become stretched out or extended, as a flag in the wind; expand, as in growth.
2. to extend over a greater or a considerable area or period:
3. to be or lie outspread or fully extended or displayed, as a landscape or scene.
4. to admit of being spread or applied in a thin layer, as a soft substance:
5. to become extended or distributed over a region, as population, animals, plants, etc.
6. to become shed abroad, diffused, or disseminated, as light, influences, rumors, ideas, infection, etc.
7. to be forced apart, as the rails of a railroad track; separate.

Origin of spread

1150-1200; Middle English spreden (v.), Old English sprǣdan; cognate with Middle Dutch spreden, German spreiten

Examples for spread

Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad.

Their immediate response tells an important truth about a police slowdown that has spread throughout New York City in recent days.

The reality TV mogul bared her butt—and everything else, too—for Paper Magazine in a spread that sent Twitter into a tizzy.

We began the 19th century with a choice, to spread our nation from coast to coast.

Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.

Above, below, the rose of snow, Twined with her blushing foe we spread.

When the news had spread, others came to join him, and he could not refuse.

The fame of the Nile valley must have spread at an early date.

But news of the classes is spread mainly by word of mouth, and participants bring along their friends and families.

Of course, we all like to play with fire, but I always put it out before it can spread.