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Definitions for breadth
brɛdθ, brɛtθ, brɛθbreadth

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. breadth, comprehensiveness, largenessnoun

    the capacity to understand a broad range of topics

    "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"; "a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views"

  2. width, breadthnoun

    the extent of something from side to side

Wiktionary

  1. breadthnoun

    The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is.

  2. breadthnoun

    A piece of fabric of standard width.

  3. breadthnoun

    Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Breadthnoun

    The measure of any plain superficies from side to side.

    Etymology: from brad, broad, Saxon.

    There is in Ticinum, in Italy, a church that hath windows only from above: it is in length an hundred feet, in breadth twenty, and in height near fifty; having a door in the midst. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 794.

    The river Ganges, according unto later relations, if not in length, yet in breadth and depth, may be granted to excel it. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 7.

    Then all approach the slain with vast surprize,
    Admire on what a breadth of earth he lies. Dryden.

    In our Gothick cathedrals, the narrowness of the arch makes it rise in height; the lowness opens it in breadth. Addison.

ChatGPT

  1. breadth

    Breadth refers to the width of an object or the extent, range, or scope of something. In a general sense, it can also refer to the comprehensive or broad nature of knowledge or experience.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Breadthadjective

    distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Breadth

    bredth, n. extent from side to side: width: a style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.—adv. Breadth′ways, broadside on. [A.S. brǽdu; Ger. briete. See Broad.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. breadth

    The measure of a vessel from side to side in any particular place athwart-ships. (See STRAIGHT OF BREADTH, HEIGHT OF BREADTH, TOP-TIMBER BREADTH, &c.)--Breadth of beam, extreme breadth of a ship.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of breadth in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of breadth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of breadth in a Sentence

  1. David Cameron:

    We were guilty of being very complacent and the funds did n’t come, our horses were injured at the wrong time and I just missed qualifying by a hair’s breadth, but I feel like all of these things have helped me plan.

  2. Duncan Clark:

    Southeast Asia has a lot of overlap with China in terms of consumer habits, intra-regional trade and tastes, rocket in this case has managed to create a successful, multi-market player in a region which needs scale and breadth to be viable. This has obvious appeal to Alibaba.

  3. Xiaodi Zhang:

    We wanted to give [consumers] a sense of the breadth of inventory, but also the ability to quickly discover new items, mobile devices can give us a tool to deliver more personalized and targeted information to you, like notifications when a dealer you favorited has published new items.

  4. John Vickers:

    So on current measures, we expect major UK banks to fund no less than 13.5 percent of risk weighted assets with Tier 1 equity, after a long march to build capital strength, UK banks are within a hair's breadth of that today. And the rewards of greater resilience are being reaped.

  5. Macomb County Judge Richard Caretti:

    In my almost 17 years on the bench your case is by far the worst, most deplorable example of animal cruelty Ive ever seen, words are inadequate to express the depth and breadth of your cruelty.

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