Definitions for widen
ˈwaɪd nwiden

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. widenverb

   become broader or wider or more extensive

   "The road widened"

2. let out, widenverb

   make (clothes) larger

   "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"

3. widenverb

   make wider

   "widen the road"

4. widen, broaden, extendverb

   extend in scope or range or area

   "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. widenverb

   To become wide or wider.

   His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.

2. widenverb

   To make wide or wider.

3. widenverb

   To let out clothes to a larger size.

   She widened his trousers for him.

4. widenverb

   To broaden or extend in scope or range.

   The police widened their enquiries.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Widenverb

   To make wide; to extend.

   Etymology: from wide.

   So now the gates are ope; now prove good seconds;
   ’Tis for the followers, fortune widens them,
   Not for the flyers. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   These accidents when they first happen, seem but small and contemptible; but by degrees they branch out and widen themselves into a numerous train of mischievous consequences. South.

   He was accustomed to sleep with a peaceable nose, softning in his slumbers the wrinkles of it, and the anger which commonly mounted to that part; but now his nostrils were widened to the last degree of fury. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

2. To Widenverb

   To grow wide; to extend itself.

   It is in this that the species of brutes are discriminated from man, and that proper difference, wherein they are wholly separated, and which at last widens to so vast a distance. John Locke.

   With her the temple ev’ry moment grew,
   Upward the columns shoot, the roofs ascend,
   And arches widen, and long isles extend. Alexander Pope.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Widen

   Widen is a municipality in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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1. widen

   To make or become larger, broader, or more open in extent, area, scope, or range. It can also refer to the process of expanding in terms of options, opportunities, or possibilities.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Widenverb

   to make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking

2. Widenverb

   to grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend

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1. WiDEN

   Wideband Integrated Digital Enhanced Network, or WiDEN, is a software upgrade developed by Motorola for its iDEN enhanced specialized mobile radio wireless telephony protocol. WiDEN allows compatible subscriber units to communicate across four 25 kHz channels combined, for up to 100 kbit/s of bandwidth. The protocol is generally considered a 2.5G wireless cellular technology.

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1. widennoun

   To make or become wider

   
   

   Submitted by jude.o'bryan on April 7, 2022  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WIDEN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Widen is ranked #34878 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Widen surname appeared 647 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Widen.
   
   95% or 615 total occurrences were White.
   2.6% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.7% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.7% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.7% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'widen' in Verbs Frequency: #884

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Anagrams for widen »

1. dwine

2. Edwin

3. wined

4. wendi

How to pronounce widen?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say widen in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of widen in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of widen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of widen in a Sentence

1. Torsten Hinrichs:

   Our goal is to widen the circle of shareholders, with a focus on Spain, Italy and France.

2. Liu Jianwei:

   The average (price) growth of new homes in first-tier cities started to narrow, while it continued to widen in second- and third-tier.

3. Kevin Lockhart:

   It feels like pricing should widen a bit, but that is offset by the combination of CLO creation and the fact that year over year volume is low.

4. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

   Which isn't a lot. But this primary is just getting started.Both of these things can't be trueTrump's main pitch for reelection is the economy and, while it hasn't lived up to his 2016 campaign promises, he put forward an extremely rosy outlook in his annual budget proposal, released Monday.Just as an example, read from CNN's story about the predicted deficits in Trump's budget compared to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Both of these things cannot be true:CBO says budget will grow -- The deficit -- the gap between how much the government spends versus how much it takes in -- surpassed $1 trillion for the calendar year in 2019, marking the first time since 2012.That number is only expected to widen even further over the coming decade, reaching a total of $1.7 trillion in 2030, according to the latest projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released in late January.White House says budget will shrink -- That's a sharp contrast to the White House's latest blueprint, which projects that the deficit will shrink to $261 billion by 2030. The President's budget assumes that the economy will grow at around 3% annually during that period of time helping to narrow the gap. Those estimates are significantly higher than what most economists anticipated along with the Federal Reserve.Bonus: Read CNN reporter Donna Borak's piece on the White House plan for more tax cuts despite the deficits.Impeachment falloutGiuliani has a channel to Barr -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Rudy Giuliani is giving information regarding his Ukraine conspiracy theories to Attorney General William Barr through some sort of special channel Barr has set up. This is not surprising since Trump clearly lumps his lawyer and the attorney general together. He asked Ukraine's President to be in touch with both of them. But a back channel to the DOJ? This is, um, not how things are supposed to work, writes Elie Honig.Trump weaponizes the presidency -- Read this from Stephen Collinson: (Trump) is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. It's unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance. The President has established dominance over his party, his Cabinet and his own media complex. He loosened Congress's constraints by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe. The result is that there are very few political constraints on his behavior left.

5. Harvey Fineberg:

   That's the brilliance of Kelvin Droegemeier, to elicit this kind of input and turn to the academics in the first place, they're genuinely trying to widen their aperture for advice, and I think so far it's working.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=widen
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Widen
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=widen
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widen
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widen
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=widen
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=widen