Associations to the word «Widespread»

Wiktionary

WIDESPREAD, adjective. Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

Dictionary definition

WIDESPREAD, adjective. Widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war".
WIDESPREAD, adjective. Distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope