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far and wide

far and wide adverb: over a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.

Adverb

far and wide (not comparable)

  1. Over a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.

far and wide meaning in Malayalam and Sanskrit

far and wide in Malayalam

far and near, everywhere, (here
എല്ലാടവും, എല്ലായിടത്തും, സർവ്വത്ര, വിശ്വതഃ, നിരക്കെ, വിഷ്വക്ക്

far and wide in Sanskrit

over a great distance or large area
बृहत् bṛhat

Origin of far and wide

From Middle English fer and wide (“far and wide”). Compare Middle English wide and side, widen and siden (“far and wide”), from Old English wīde and sīde (“far and wide”).

Questions about far and wide

What does far and wide mean?
Far and wide means over a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.
What is far and wide in Malayalam?
Far and wide in Malayalam is എല്ലാടവും, എല്ലായിടത്തും, സർവ്വത്ര. See Far and wide meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is far and wide?
Far and wide is an adverb.

Words near far and wide in the dictionary

  1. faqueers
  2. faquir
  3. faquirs
  4. far
  5. far and away
  6. far and wide
  7. far away
  8. far be it
  9. far breton
  10. far bretons
  11. Far Cotton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: far and wide (page history and authors); far and wide (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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