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wardwide

wardwide adjective: spanning an entire ward.

Adjective

wardwide (not comparable)

  1. Spanning an entire ward
    • I had a kind of breakdown and was in a city mental hospital, where I was in a ward-wide therapy group.1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 192
    • Females are organized into coteries, coteries into wards, and wards into a colony. Female offspring from coteries within a ward form a wardwide pool of […]1990, Felix Breden, Glenn Hausfater, “Selection Within and Between Social Groups for Infanticide”, in American Naturalist, volume 136, number 5

Questions about wardwide

What does wardwide mean?
Wardwide means spanning an entire ward.
What part of speech is wardwide?
Wardwide is an adjective.

Words near wardwide in the dictionary

  1. wardsmithite
  2. wardswoman
  3. wardswomen
  4. Wardwell
  5. Wardwells
  6. wardwide
  7. wardwoman
  8. wardwomen
  9. ware
  10. Ware County
  11. ware geese

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