extending over a wide area accepted by or occurring among many people
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
wide•spread /ˈwaɪdˈsprɛd/USA pronunciation
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- spread over a wide area:widespread destruction.
- occurring or found in many places or among many persons:a widespread belief that he was, in fact, a crook.
wide•spread
(wīd′spred′),USA pronunciation adj.
- spread over or open, or occupying a wide space.
- distributed over a wide region, or occurring in many places or among many persons or individuals:widespread poverty.
- wide + spread 1695–1705
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . far-reaching, extensive, pervasive, far-flung.
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'widespread' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
A, a
- Aaron's rod
- Apostles' Creed
- Arawak
- Charles II
- EMP
- English
- Freemason
- Orphism
- announce
- apocalypse
- arm-twist
- armillaria root rot
- athlete
- big name
- bison
- blizzard
- bloodbath
- breakout
- bred-in-the-bone
- brown bat
- carrot
- catastrophe
- celebrate
- chairperson
- chlamydia
- coal measures
- coltsfoot
- common
- consensus
- consumerize
- craze
- crucifixion
- culex
- current
- defoliate
- diglossia
- dire wolf
- disaster area
- doomsday
- dugong
- eagle
- eight-hundred number
- elm bark beetle
- endosulfan
- epidemic
- epiphytotic
- extended
- extensive
- fame