[ US /ˈbɹɛdθ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈɛdθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the extent of something from side to side
  2. the capacity to understand a broad range of topics
    a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject
    a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views
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How To Use breadth In A Sentence

  • The length should be that of the bandaging; the breadth, three or four fingers; thickness, three or fourfold; number so as to encircle the limb, neither more nor less; those applied for the purpose of rectifying a deformity, should be of such a length as to encircle it; the breadth and thickness being determined by the vacuity, which is not to be filled up at once. On The Surgery
  • Her breadth of experience makes her ideal for the job.
  • But the problem seems to be that the people writing about it are mostly of the inside-the-Beltway punditry, meaning it lacks a certain breadth, I think. Chris Weigant: To Lefties: How Does Obama Disappoint?
  • But shortage of teachers and timetabling problems make it very difficult for schools to work any great breadth into the system.
  • And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders. CHAPTER XXIII
  • The group built their reputation by playing across the length and breadth of North America.
  • His breadth of knowledge is amazing enough.
  • The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills. StreetInsider.com News Articles
  • In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • How many individuals in this modern day have the depth and breadth of experience and knowledge that these ancient warriors acquired through long centuries of warfare?
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