width

/ˈwɪtθ/

width noun: the state of being wide.

Noun

width (countable and uncountable, plural widths)

The state of being wide.
The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.

Synonyms:

breadth
A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.
- Manchester United like to play with width.
- England looked to put width on the ball after the restart, Armitage very nearly going over in the corner only for the video referee to decide his foot was in touch. But Armitage did get on the score-sheet five minutes later, Ben Foden straightening and putting the London Irish man in.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport

width meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

width in Hindi

measurement of something from side to side: चौड़ाई cauṛāī

width in Tamil

state of being wide: அகலம் akalam
measurement of something from side to side: அகலம் akalam

width in Urdu

measurement of something from side to side: چوڑائی cauṛāī

More languagesFewer languages

width in Bengali: পানা pana
width in Telugu: వెడల్పు veḍalpu
width in Malayalam: വീതി vīti
width in Kannada: ಅಗಲ agala
width in Punjabi: ਚੌਡ਼ਾਈ
width in Gujarati: પહોળાઈ, પહોળાઇ
width in Odia: ଓସାର osāra, ବିସ୍ତାର bistāra, ପ୍ରସାର prasāra
width in Sanskrit: प्रथस् prathas
width in Assamese: পথালি pothali, পুতল putol
width in Nepali: चौडा cauḍā, चाक्लो cāklo, चौडाई cauḍāī
width in Tagalog: lapad
width in Arabic: عَرْض ʕarḍ
width in Malay: kelebaran
width in Indonesian: lebar
width in Persian: عرض 'arz, پهنا pahnâ
width in Thai: ความกว้าง kwaam-gwâang
width in Vietnamese: chiều rộng
width in Myanmar: အနံ a.nam

Examples of width in a sentence

A shaftment is the width of the palm and the outstretched thumb.
A fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
A 10% increase in length occurs during the third trimester, and the interpterion width increases 15%.

All 40 example sentences with width

Synonyms of width

Antonyms

length

Forms of width

plural	widths

Plural of width: widths

Origin of width

PIE word *dwóh₁ From wide + -th (abstract nominal suffix), possibly by analogy with Old Norse vídd (“width”), though this is unlikely, as the word is not attested before the end of the 16th century and was historically unknown in Scots and the traditional dialect of Northern England, where one would expect Old Norse influence to be the strongest (these varieties traditionally employed wideness instead). Replaced Middle English wide, wyde (“width”).

Words formed from width

Phrases with width

width restrictions

Questions about width

What does width mean?: Width means the state of being wide.
What is width in Hindi?: Width in Hindi is चौड़ाई (cauṛāī). See Width meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is width?: Width is a noun.
How do you pronounce width?: Width is pronounced /ˈwɪtθ/.
What is the plural of width?: The plural of width is widths.

Words near width in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: width (page history and authors); रुंदी (Marathi) (page history and authors); വീതി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಅಗಲ (Kannada) (page history and authors); width (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); width (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଓସାର (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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