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wide-spread

wide-spread

See also: widespread

English

Adjective

wide-spread (comparative wider-spread or more wide-spread, superlative widest-spread or most wide-spread)

  1. Alternative spelling of widespread
    • 1999, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, William Morris on Art and Socialism
      " [] a danger that the strongest and wisest of mankind, in striving to attain to a complete mastery over Nature, should destroy her simplest and widest-spread gifts [] "