wide
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Is wide a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of wide?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (slang, derogatory, humorous) Overweight, obese.derogatoryhumorousslang
2. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.Examples: "That team needs a decent wide player."
3. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.dated
4. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.Examples: "The wide, lifeless expanse."Northern-EnglandScotlandarchaic
5. (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.Examples: "Mr Hunt's house, you know, lies wide from Harlowe-place."; "the contrary [being] so wide from the truth of Scripture and the attributes of God"obsolete
6. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.Examples: "And I trust anon by the help of an infallible guide, to perfect such Prutenic tables, as shall mend the astronomy of our wide expositors."; "But I tell you, it is farre wyde, that the people haue ſuche iudgmentes, the Byſhoppes they coulde laughe at it."; "How wide is all this long pretence!"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score
Definition source: Wiktionary