- the linear extent or measurement of something from side to side, usually being the shortest dimension or (for something fixed) the shortest horizontal dimension
- the state or fact of being wide
- a piece or section of something at its full extent from side to side: a width of cloth
- the distance across a rectangular swimming bath, as opposed to its length
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
width /wɪdθ, wɪtθ/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- the size or amount of something measured from side to side;
breadth: [countable]a width of sixty feet.[uncountable]sixty feet in width. - something, as a piece of cloth, of a particular width:[countable]She cut a width of silk and began to sew it.
width
(width, witth or, often, with),USA pronunciation n.
- extent from side to side;
breadth;
wideness. - a piece of the full wideness, as of cloth.
- wide + -th1, modeled on breadth, etc. 1620–30
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
width /wɪdθ/ n
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- bouffant
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- cephalic index
- Chile
- Cook Strait
- cranial index
- deckle
- dimension
- Dover
- embrasure
- en
- English Channel
- finger
- Frome
- gape
- gauge
- Gobi
- Grand Canyon
- Great Wall of China
- handbreadth
- histogram
- ice bridge
- Iguaçú Falls
- Iliamna
- Joseph Bonaparte Gulf
- Juan de Fuca
- Kaieteur Falls
- Katmai
- Kīlauea
- Kra
- landscape
- length
- Leven
- Little Belt
- Lomond
- Magellan
- Managua
- Manitoulin Island
- measure
- Mediterranean Sea
- Memphremagog
- Menai Strait
- microfilm
- monospaced type
- Mozambique Channel
- Nantucket