breadth
/bɹɛdθ/
breadth noun: the extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
Noun
breadth (countable and uncountable, plural breadths)
- The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
- The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.
- The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.1873, Charles Tomlinson, chapter III, in Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 122
- Synonyms:
- width
- A piece of fabric of standard width.
- Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
- expand one’s breadth of marketing
- "The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023
- A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
- The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.
breadth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
breadth in Hindi
- breadth
- अर्ज़ arz, आयाम āyām
breadth in Tamil
- அகலம், பரப்பு, பரந்த மனப்பாங்கு, அகல நோக்கம், விரிந்த மனம்
breadth in Urdu
- breadth; the extent or measure of how broad or wide something is
- چوڑائی cauṛāī
- breadth
- دوری dūrī
breadth in Malayalam
- breadth
- വിരിവ് virivŭ
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- breadth in Kannada
- ಅಡ್ಡ aḍḍa
- breadth in Punjabi
- ਅਰਜ਼ arz, ਪਾਟ pāṭ
- breadth in Gujarati
- પહોળાઈ pahoḷāī
- breadth in Odia
- ଚଉଡ଼ା cauṛā
- breadth in Sanskrit
- आयाम āyāma
Examples of breadth in a sentence
- He missed me by a hair's breadth when he ran past me yesterday.
- I've scoured the length and breadth of Australia in search of British baked beans.
- They came within a hair's breadth of contacting electrified water.
Synonyms of breadth
Forms of breadth
| plural | breadths |
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Origin of breadth
From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Norwegian Bokmål bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”).
Words formed from breadth
- acre breadth
- bizygomatic breadth
- breadthen
- breadth-first search
- breadth-first traversal
- breadth-height index
- breadth index
- breadth indicator
- breadthless
- breadth-line
- breadth of accommodation
- breadth of effect
- breadth of market
- breadth-of-market theory
- breadth of mind
- breadth of the market
- breadth of tone
- breadth-riders
- breadthways
- breadthwise
- brength
- by a hair's breadth
- curve of constant breadth
- finger-breadth
- fingerbreadth
- fingersbreadth
- finger's breadth
- foot-breadth
- footbreadth
- hairbreadth
- hair's breadth
- hairsbreadth
- handbreadth
- hand's breadth
- handsbreadth
- index of breadth
- length and breadth
- overbreadth
- straw-breadth
- straw's breadth
- thumbsbreadth
- wheel breadth
Phrases with breadth
Questions about breadth
- What does breadth mean?
- Breadth means the extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
- What is breadth in Hindi?
- Breadth in Hindi is अर्ज़ (arz), आयाम (āyām). See Breadth meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is breadth?
- Breadth is a noun.
- How do you pronounce breadth?
- Breadth is pronounced /bɹɛdθ/.
- What is the plural of breadth?
- The plural of breadth is breadths.
Words near breadth in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: breadth (page history and authors); अर्ज़ (Hindi) (page history and authors); breadth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دوری (Urdu) (page history and authors); വിരിവ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಅಡ್ಡ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਅਰਜ਼ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); પહોળાઈ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଚଉଡ଼ା (Odia) (page history and authors); आयाम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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