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wides

wides is the plural of wide.

Meaning of wide

Noun

wide (plural wides)

  1. 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

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Questions about wides

What is wides the plural of?
Wides is the plural of wide.

Words near wides in the dictionary

  1. wider open
  2. wider-spread
  3. widereaching
  4. widershins
  5. widerspread
  6. wides
  7. widescale
  8. widescreen
  9. widescreens
  10. wideset
  11. widesome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wides (page history and authors); wide (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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