Breadth - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |bredθ|  American pronunciation of the word breadth
Brit.  |bredθ|  British pronunciation of the word breadth

noun

- the capacity to understand a broad range of topics (syn: comprehensiveness, largeness)
a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject
- the extent of something from side to side (syn: width)

Extra examples

We measured the height, breadth, and depth of each piece of furniture.

...a great breadth of land awaited those who were brave and hardy enough to settle it...

The boat measured fifteen feet in length and four feet in breadth.

...a notorious 17th-century libertine who supposedly left a brood of whoresons across the breadth of England...

The streets are in a direct line, and of a convenient breadth.

The job wasn't giving him the breadth of experience he wanted.

His breadth of knowledge was amazing.

We need to provide more breadth in the college curriculum.

The police searched the length and breadth of the country.

Word forms

noun
singular: breadth
plural: breadths
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