expanse
Other forms: expanses
An expanse is a huge area you can look at all at once. If you climb to the top of a mountain, suggest that your fellow climbers take time to admire the expanse of trees below.
Expanse looks like the word expand. Both come from the Latin word expandere, meaning "to spread out, unfold." But where did expandere come from? Ex- means "out" and pandere means "spread or stretch." So an expanse is something that seems to unfold before your eyes, or to put it another way, something that stretches out as far as the eye can see.
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a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky
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types:
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sheet
any broad thin expanse or surface
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stretch
a large and unbroken expanse or distance
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slack, slack water
a stretch of water without current or movement
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type of:
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space
an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
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sheet
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a wide scope
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the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
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synonyms:
area, surface area
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types:
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acreage, land area
an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming)
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footprint
the area taken up by some object
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erasure
a surface area where something has been erased
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blank space, place, space
a blank area
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space
one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
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balk, baulk
the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
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plane section, section
(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
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segment
the area of a circle bounded by a chord and an arc of the circle
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margin
the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
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indent, indentation, indention, indenture
the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
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cross section
a section created by a plane cutting a solid perpendicular to its longest axis
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extent
the distance or area or volume over which something extends
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Vocabulary lists containing expanse
With a name that translates into Stout Heart, fifteen-year-old Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of the Polynesian island of Hikueru, is determined to conquer his fear of the sea.
On a hike in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, thirteen-year-old Erin Rowe makes a new friend when they both get lost and must rely on each other to survive.
In the Kingdom of Mangkon, twelve-year-old Sodsai Mudawan lies about her family's background so that she could have a chance at a bright future.
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