noun
Meaning 1
A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
expanse
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspæns/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɛkˈspæns/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Canada, General-American: /ɪkˈspæns/
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Canada, General-American: [ɪkˈspɛəns] /æ/ raising
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Texas: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Australian: /ɪkˈspæns/
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New-Zealand: /əkˈspɛns/
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rhymes with -æns
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CMU ARPABET: IH0 K S P AE1 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An amount of spread or stretch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a wide scope
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the sweep of the plains
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sweep
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit
noun
Meaning 4
the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the area of a rectangle
- it was about 500 square feet in area
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: area, surface area
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extent
Narrower terms: acreage, land area, footprint, erasure, space, blank space, place, balk, baulk, section, plane section
noun
Meaning 5
a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: space
Narrower terms: sheet, stretch
History
Etymology
From Latin expansum, from expandō.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: прастор (prastór) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Belarusian: прастора (prastóra) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Belarusian: прасцяг (prascjah) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Belarusian: абшар (abšar) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Bulgarian: шир (šir) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Bulgarian: простор (prostor) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Catalan: extensió — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Danish: vidde — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Finnish: aava — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Finnish: lakeus — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- French: étendue — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Greek: απλωσιά (aplosiá) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Hindi: प्रसार (prasār) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Lithuanian: platybės — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Lithuanian: tyrai — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Māori: tahua — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Māori: tāmoremore — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Polish: bezkres — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Russian: простор (prostor) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Northern Sami: áhpi — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Sanskrit: ज्रयस् (jrayas) — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Spanish: extensión — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Swedish: vidd — A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
- Bulgarian: протежение (proteženie) — An amount of spread or stretch
- Finnish: laajuus — An amount of spread or stretch