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- Dictionaryexpanse/ɪkˈspans/
noun
- 1. a wide continuous area of something: "the green expanse of the forest"
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a large, open area of land, water, or sky: expanse of The Great Plains are a broad expanse of grassland. vast expanse vast expanses of sand and pine. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Space - general words. bay. blank. chamber. dead space. elbow room. expanse of something. floor. footprint. multi-chambered. non-spatial. room. space.
1. : firmament. 2. : great extent of something spread out. an expanse of calm ocean. Synonyms. breadth. distance. expansion. extent. field. length. plain. reach. sheet. spread. stretch. waste. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of expanse in a Sentence.
Expanse definition: an uninterrupted space or area; a wide extent of anything. See examples of EXPANSE used in a sentence.
a very wide space or area: the vast expanse of Russia. (Definition of expanse from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of expanse.
expanse (of something) a wide and open area of something, especially land or water. She stood looking out over the flat expanse of fields. Definition of expanse noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
An expanse of something, usually sea, sky, or land, is a very large amount of it.
An expanse is a huge area you can look at all at once. If you climb to the top of a mountain, suggest that your fellow climbers take time to admire the expanse of trees below.
1. an uninterrupted surface of something that spreads or extends, esp over a wide area; stretch: an expanse of water. 2. expansion or extension. [C17: from New Latin expansum the heavens, from Latin expansus spread out, from expandere to expand]
Definition of expanse noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
an uninterrupted space or area; a wide extent of anything: an expanse of water. something that is spread out, especially over a relatively large area: that great expanse, the sky. expansion ; extension: the wide expanse of scientific knowledge.
