expanse
noun
1 expanse
A wide scope.
synonym: sweep.
Roget 180:
space,
extension,
extent,
superficial extent,
expanse,
stretch,
hyperspace;
room,
scope,
range,
field,
way,
expansion,
compass,
sweep,
swing,
spread.
dimension,
length
etc.
200;
distance
etc.
196;
size
etc.
192;
volume;
hypervolume.
latitude,
play,
leeway,
purchase,
tolerance,
room for maneuver.
spare room,
elbow room,
house room;
stowage,
roomage†,
margin;
opening,
sphere,
arena.
open space,
free space;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
waste;
wildness,
wilderness;
moor,
moorland;
campagna†.
abyss
etc.
(interval)
198;
unlimited space;
infinity
etc.
105;
world;
ubiquity
etc.
(presence)
186;
length and breadth of the land.
proportions,
acreage;
acres,
acres and perches,
roods and perches,
hectares,
square miles;
square inches,
square yards,
square centimeters,
square meters,
yards
(clothing)
&c.;
ares,
arpents†.
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Roget 192:
size,
magnitude,
dimension,
bulk,
volume;
largeness
etc.
adj.;
greatness
etc.
(of quantity)
31;
expanse
etc.
(space)
180;
amplitude,
mass;
proportions.
capacity,
tonnage,
tunnage;
cordage;
caliber,
scantling.
turgidity
etc.
(expansion)
194;
corpulence,
obesity;
plumpness
etc.
adj.;
embonpoint,
corporation,
flesh and blood,
lustihood.
hugeness
etc.
adj.;
enormity,
immensity,
monstrosity.
giant,
Brobdingnagian,
Antaeus,
Goliath,
Gog and Magog,
Gargantua,
monster,
mammoth,
Cyclops;
cachalot,
whale,
porpoise,
behemoth,
leviathan,
elephant,
hippopotamus;
colossus;
tun,
cord,
lump,
bulk,
block,
loaf,
mass,
swad,
clod,
nugget,
bushel,
thumper,
whooper,
spanker,
strapper;
Triton among the minnows"
[Coriolanus].
mountain,
mound;
heap
etc.
(assemblage)
72.
largest portion
etc.
50;
full size,
life size.
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2 expanse
The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary.
synonyms: area, surface area.
Dutch: oppervlakte
Polish: pole, pole powierzchni, powierzchnia
3 expanse
A wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky.
Dutch: uitgestrektheid
Moby thesaurus: acreage, ampleness, amplitude, area, beam, bigness, body, boundlessness, breadth, broadness, bulk, caliber, compass, continuum, coverage, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance, distance across, domain, emptiness, empty space, enormity, enormousness, expansion, extension, extent, field, formidableness, fullness, galactic space, gauge, gigantism, girth, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, height, hugeness, immensity, infinite space, infinity, intensity, interstellar space, largeness, latitude, length, length and breadth, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, might, mightiness, muchness, nothingness, orbit, outer space, plenitude, power, prodigiousness, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, space, span, spatial extension, sphere, spread, strength, stretch, stupendousness, superficial extension, surface, sweep, territory, tract, tremendousness, vastness, void, volume, wideness, width ... show more.
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