widespread

CEFRB1

/ˌwaɪdˈspɹɛd/

adjective

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

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It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic[…] Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches
1964, Evan Hunter, Buddwing

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