Expanse
[ɪk'spæns;ek-] or [ɪk'spæns]
Definition
(noun.) a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky.
Checked by Edwin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.
(v. t.) To expand.
Edited by Ian
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Extent, expansion, expanded surface.[2]. Firmament, arch of the sky.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vast, void, space, breadth
ANT:Limit, enclosure, confine, bound
Checked by Alden
Examples
- As it turned out, however, morning found me speeding over a vast expanse of dead sea bottom after nearly six hours of continuous flight at high speed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- To an eye above them their two faces would have appeared amid the expanse like two pearls on a table of ebony. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He was a brown spot in the midst of an expanse of olive-green gorse, and nothing more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shining pavement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The east was yet rosy with the dawn, and the great expanse of ocean slept below them in serene calm. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Check number one, said Holmes, looking gloomily over the rolling expanse of the moor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- To an observer whose view is not obstructed, any part of the earth presents itself as a circular and horizontal expanse, on the circumference of which the heavens appear to rest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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