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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
breadth
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hair's breadth
▪ The bullet missed me by a hair’s breadth.
sb's breadth of knowledge (=when you know a lot about all the different parts of something)
▪ They lack his breadth of knowledge about the industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ The melody is arranged in three octaves instead of two, for greater breadth and sonority.
▪ This is not the book with the greatest breadth or depth, but it is handy and easy to read.
▪ A more tentative evolution towards greater breadth and flexibility would be expected.
▪ But shortage of teachers and timetabling problems make it very difficult for schools to work any great breadth into the system.
▪ Besides raising important matters of principle, the ban proved unwieldy in operation because of the great breadth of the civil service.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc
▪ But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.
▪ They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His research for the book took him across the full breadth of the country.
▪ One thing I noticed right away was the breadth of the training that the workers were given.
▪ the breadth of the ocean
▪ This flower resembles a lily and may reach a breadth of four inches.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Across the whole breadth of the story, meanwhile, fly the Nazgûl.
▪ Concerns have also been raised about the breadth of the field of candidates.
▪ Someday I want to travel the length and breadth of it by train.
▪ This is not the book with the greatest breadth or depth, but it is handy and easy to read.
▪ Thus allowing the student to be certificated for a breadth of technique in string instruments.
▪ What is so striking though is the breadth and depth of the Bund's response to the situation it faced.
▪ What is the length and breadth of the largest forest area?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breadth

Breadth \Breadth\ (br[e^]dth), n. [OE. brede, breede, whence later bredette, AS. br[=ae]du, fr. br[=a]d broad. See Broad, a.]

  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

  2. (Fine Arts) The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great multiplicity of details, producing an impression of largeness and simple grandeur; -- called also breadth of effect.

    Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters.
    --Weale.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
breadth

1520s, alteration of brede "breadth," from Old English brædu "breadth, width, extent," from bræd; probably by analogy of long/length.

Wiktionary
breadth

n. 1 The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is. 2 A piece of fabric of standard width. 3 scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill. 4 (context math English) (''graph theory'') the length of the longest path between two vertices on a graph

WordNet
breadth
  1. n. an ability to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject" [syn: comprehensiveness]

  2. the extent of something from side to side [syn: width]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "breadth".

The commonly associated defects are: More or less completely septate bladder, atresia ani, or more rarely double anus, double urethra, increased breadth of the bony pelvis with defect of the symphysis pubis, and possibly duplication of the lower end of the spine, and hernia of some of the abdominal contents into a perineal pouch.

In Apaecides the whole aspect betokened the fervor and passion of his temperament, and the intellectual portion of his nature seemed, by the wild fire of the eyes, the great breadth of the temples when compared with the height of the brow, the trembling restlessness of the lips, to be swayed and tyrannized over by the imaginative and ideal.

But at the least, before she left, Rune had determined to walk the length and breadth of Nolton, listening to buskers and talking to them, to find Amber a replacement musician for the common room.

The cloth had dried to the shape of his body, square-rumped and solid, the breadth of his small, tender shoulders echoing the wide set of the older, firmer ones he clung to.

Now Coffa topped his mama in height at the shoulder by several inches as well as breadth in the chest.

From the Cyanean rocks to the point and harbour of Byzantium the winding length of the Bosphorus extends about sixteen miles, and its most ordinary breadth may be computed at about one mile and a half.

From the Cyanean rocks to the point and harbor of Byzantium, the winding length of the Bosphorus extends about sixteen miles, and its most ordinary breadth may be computed at about one mile and a half.

Before I had time to wrench drum and drumsticks away from this most obstinate of all pupils without concern for his halo, Father Wiehnke was behind me -- my drumming had made itself heard throughout the length and breadth of the church -- Vicar Rasczeia was behind me.

In worming against her warmth he has pulled her dress up from her knees, and their repulsive breadth and pallor, laid bare defenselessly, superimposed upon the tiny, gamely gritted teeth the boy exposed for him, this old whiteness strained through this fine mesh, make a milk that feels to Eccles like his own blood.

Parasites and skin diseases, vicious habits and insanitary practices have been spread, as if in a passion of equalitarian propaganda, the slums of such centres as Glasgow, London and Liverpool, throughout the length and breadth of the land.

As the thirty-one judges sprang to their feet with drawn and upraised swords in unanimous concurrence in the verdict, the storm broke throughout the length and breadth and height of that mighty building until I thought the roof would fall from the thunder of the mad shouting.

The watercourse at that part measured one hundred feet in breadth, and its two banks on each side were scarcely twenty feet high.

On its left side it did not measure more than thirty feet in height and breadth, but on the right it was enormous, and its vaulted roof rose to a height of more than eighty feet.

The river still measured from sixty to seventy feet in breadth, and its bed from five to six feet in depth.

But soon the boat grated on the stony bottom of the river, which was now not more than twenty feet in breadth.