wide adjective (AMOUNT) B1 used to describe something that includes a large amount or many different types of thing, or that covers a large range or area:

1. of great extent from side to side; broad: a wide street. 2. having a specified extent from side to side: three feet wide. 3. vast; spacious: the wide plains. 4. of great range or scope: a person of wide experience.

Adjective wide (comparative wider or more wide, superlative widest or most wide) Having a large physical extent from side to side.

a combining form of wide, forming from nouns adjectives with the general sense "extending or applying throughout a given space,'' as specified by the noun: communitywide; countrywide; worldwide.

Wide and broad may be synonymous, but broad is generally the larger and more emphatic: a wide river is not thought of as so far across as a broad river. Wide is sometimes more applicable to that which is to be passed through: as, a wide mouth or aperture.

WIDE definition: having considerable or great extent from side to side; broad. See examples of wide used in a sentence.

You use wide to say that something is found, believed, known, or supported by many people or throughout a large area. The case has attracted wide publicity. I suspect this book will have the widest appeal of all. As pope he won wide support for his strict orthodoxy.

The word wide describes something that stretches across a great distance, like a smile that beams from ear to ear, or the open arms of a friend about to give you a big hug.