Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: breadth
IPA transcription: [bɹ'ɛdθ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness, largeness
    Meaning: the capacity to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"; "a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views"
  • Synonyms: width, breadth
    Meaning: the extent of something from side to side
Usage examples
  • The breadth of one of your fingers does not give me a very clear idea of distance.'
  • "Foma Gordyeeff" is a big book--not only is the breadth of Russia in it, but the expanse of life.
  • The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half.
  • It was about six feet in length by two and a half in breadth; I observed it attentively, and like to be precise.
  • "Would not your coming here displease him?" said John, always tenacious of trenching a hair's breadth upon any lawful authority.
  • Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock-frock, by the breadth of a hair. Ten generations failed to alter the turn of a single phrase.
  • "Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for with a knight-errant, if he has but two fingers' breadth of good fortune, it is on the cards to become the mightiest lord on earth.
  • Look here--in Darkshire, hardly the breadth of my finger from Milton, is Heston, which I have often heard of from people living in the north as such a pleasant little bathing-place.
  • "Recollect, Sancho," said the duke, "I cannot give a bit of heaven, no not so much as the breadth of my nail, to anyone; rewards and favours of that sort are reserved for God alone.
  • The barber damsel, when she had him a hand's breadth deep in lather, pretended that there was no more water, and bade the one with the jug go and fetch some, while Senor Don Quixote waited.