Extend Meaning
/ɛkˈstɛnd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo increase in extent.
verbTo possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
Sentence Examples
Can you extend your holiday by a few days?
The school grounds extend as far as this fence.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We need to ____ the deadline for the project submission by two days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company decided to ____ the deadline for the project by another two weeks.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“to stretch out”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west."
— 1964, Jen Yu-ti [任育地], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 165:
"The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water."
— 1894, Fred Grundy, “Management of Fall Pigs”, in The American Agriculturist Volume 54:
"[…] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper."
— 1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, page 155:
"Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended."
— 1993, The Leatherneck, volume 76, page xxxvi:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We need to ____ the deadline for the project submission by two days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The company decided to ____ the deadline for the project by another two weeks.