Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: spacious
IPA transcription: [sp'eɪʃəs]
Pronunciations of spacious
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: broad, spacious, wide
    Meaning: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
Usage examples
  • It was a beautiful church, ancient and spacious; moreover, it had recently been restored at great cost.
  • There were no comfortable study rooms, well furnished with desks, seats, and rostrums: no spacious lecture halls.
  • Unabashed, Burne ran his hand lovingly across the spacious foreheads, and piling up the pictures put them back in his desk.
  • The cottage is well imitated, and the whole has a pleasing effect, particularly so to me who love Norway--its peaceful farms and spacious wilds.
  • The Main Building had originally been a handsome old dwelling house, whose spacious rooms were now used as parlors, library, offices and teachers' rooms.
  • All of them pass through the wire gauze and form a group on the summit of the brushwood, where they swiftly weave a spacious lounge of criss-cross threads.
  • A raised gallery looked down into the spacious inclosure in which Count William kept the living specimens of his own princely badge of the lion. And here the company gathered to see the sport.
  • Just about the time that this harmonious party began their work, a far from harmonious couple were being just as industrious in the grand spacious bunker in front of the tee to the last hole on the golf-links.
  • John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.
  • As though trained for years in this particular evolution, the green Martians melted like mist into the spacious doorways of the nearby buildings, until, in less than three minutes, the entire cavalcade of chariots, mastodons and mounted warriors was nowhere to be seen.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bicycle, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Calvin and Hobbes, License CC BY-SA 4.0