expanse
/ɪkˈspæns/US/ɪkˈspæns/
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expanse noun: a wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
Noun
expanse (plural expanses)
- A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
- That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
- An amount of spread or stretch.
expanse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
expanse in Hindi
- A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- प्रसार prasār
expanse in Tamil
- பரந்த வெளி, பெரும் பரப்பு, பெருவெளி, பரப்பு, படர்ச்சி, பரந்த இடம்
expanse in Urdu
- کشادگی, پھیلاؤ, وسعت
expanse in Bengali
- expanse, extent
- প্রসার prôsar
More languagesFewer languages
- expanse in Telugu
- విరివి virivi
- expanse in Malayalam
- വിശാലത, വിസ്താരം, വികസനത്തിൻറെ അളവ്
- expanse in Kannada
- ವಿಸ್ತಾರ, ಹರವು, ವೈಶಾಲ್ಯ, ತೆರಪು
- expanse in Odia
- ବିସ୍ତାର bistāra
- expanse in Sanskrit
- ज्रयस् jrayas
Examples of expanse in a sentence
- Crores and crores of worlds occupy the unending expanse of the Universe; the vast expanse, beyond measure.
- Tonle Sap Lake sits roughly in the middle of this lush expanse.
- At first we see only the fabric, an expanse of smokish blue.
Forms of expanse
| plural | expanses |
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Origin of expanse
From Latin expansum, from expandō.
Words formed from expanse
Words that rhyme with expanse
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Questions about expanse
- What does expanse mean?
- Expanse means a wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
- What is expanse in Hindi?
- Expanse in Hindi is प्रसार (prasār). See Expanse meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is expanse?
- Expanse is a noun.
- How do you pronounce expanse?
- Expanse is pronounced /ɪkˈspæns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of expanse?
- The plural of expanse is expanses.
Words near expanse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: expanse (page history and authors); expanse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expanse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); প্রসার (Bengali) (page history and authors); విరివి (Telugu) (page history and authors); expanse (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); expanse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ବିସ୍ତାର (Odia) (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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