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Definition 2024
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)
- 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 […] "
- 1999, William Morris, Norman Kelvin, William Morris on Art and Socialism