space

Roget category 180

2. Words relating to space
› 2.1. Space in general
›› 2.1.1. Abstract space

#180. [Indefinite space.] Space

noun

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^†.

adjective

spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample — widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed — boundless etc. (infinite) 105 — shoreless^†, trackless, pathless — extended.

adverb

extensively etc. adj. — wherever — everywhere — far and near, far and wide — right and left, all over, all the world over — throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the throughout the length and breadth of the land — under the sun, in every quarter — in all quarters, in all lands — here there and everywhere — from pole to pole, from China to Peru [Johnson], from Indus to the pole [Pope], from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end — on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass — to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

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