What is "most widespread"

Usage examples of "most widespread".

Before the recent overseas expansion of Europeans speaking Indo-European languages, Austronesian was the most widespread language family in the world.

Despite the relative scarcity of economic information in the documents of Rakis so far examined, a fair amount is known about the commercial and financial systems of the Imperium, Account books and similar materials are among the most widespread end long-lived of all human records.

Given that Dwellers were the most widespread of the planet-based species of the galaxy, with a presence in almost all gas-giants - themselves the most common type of planets - the fact that out of those ninety million-plus Dweller-inhabited super-globes there were exactly eight with populations willing to play host to those wishing to carry on more than the most fleeting conversation with their inhabitants spoke volumes - indeed, appropriately, libraries - about their almost utter lack of interest in the day-to-day life of the rest of the galactic community .

The records say that the worst of the great plagues, the ones that brought the most widespread death, were marked with the tokens.

The Finns of Finland had a large number of aquatic divinities among whom the most widespread was Nakki, genie of the Water.

Sometimes - and this was the most widespread tradition - he was considered to be the son of Aphrodite.

Lazarus told me (centuries later or years later - a matter of viewpoint) that he was half-way through his toast to Carol when he suddenly realised that he was inaugurating the most widespread holiday of the human race: Carolita's Day - and that he has been trying ever since to decide which came first: the chicken or the egg.