breadths

noun

plural of breadth
1
as in expanses
a wide space or area a great breadth of land awaited those who were brave and hardy enough to settle it

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Relevance
2
as in scopes
an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends the breadth of his knowledge on the subject is awesome

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for breadths
  1. expanses
  2. scopes
  3. expansions
  4. realms
  5. lengths
  6. extents
  7. stretches
  8. widths
Noun
  • The swamp's prairies are vast, watery expanses dotted with floating islands and stands of cypress and other trees.
    — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 20 July 2026
  • The property makes the most of its secluded setting, where guests get to explore the wide expanses of desert and winding riverbeds without encountering other safari vehicles.
    — Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2026
Definition of expanses
Noun
  • As marketing departments respond to these market changes, procurement executives’ scopes are evolving in parallel.
    — Michelle Douglas, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
Definition of scopes
Noun
  • The increase in financial services positions was fueled by corporate relocations and expansions.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
  • All of the potential expansions listed in ICE’s request for proposals share the same construction plan, which includes a one-story building consisting of 26 detention cells.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 20 July 2026
Definition of expansions
Noun
  • Alt text and image description are not meant to close the book on the definitive, but to open it onto the vast realms of meaning-making.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026
  • Ackman has become more ideological, expanding his crusades into cultural and academic realms.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • Some school pocket charts have long horizontal pockets that hold several different lengths of cards, while other charts include grid-like pockets that look like the sleeves to show off baseball cards.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2026
  • Beyond fit, high-rise waists, cropped lengths, and streamlined silhouettes can also create a longer, more balanced look.
    — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 21 July 2026
Definition of lengths
Noun
  • Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been excerpted, to varying extents, for past releases.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 1 June 2026
Definition of extents
Noun
  • This is the franchise that dealt the Wave their worst loss of all, the 1-0 semifinals defeat in San Diego that denied Casey Stoney‘s club, which looked weirdly tentative for long stretches, a 2023 NWSL finals berth at Snapdragon Stadium.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026
  • Early estimates, drawn from a few fast-changing stretches of DNA, had put the lineage at only a few centuries old.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of stretches
Noun
  • The shoes come in a range of fun color combinations and sizes 5–16, including half sizes and wide widths.
    — Mia Huelsbeck, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
  • Accessibility All areas of the hotel are accessible by wheelchair, with compliant door widths.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
Definition of widths
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