Meaning

2 senses
  1. A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.

    просторprostor

    a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

  2. An amount of spread or stretch.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Felix admired the vast expanses of wilderness.

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  2. The university has a large expanse of forest.

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  3. Over the wide expanse there was no sound and no movement.

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  4. The night was calm, the sea a vast expanse of black.

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  5. William looked out the airplane window and saw the vast expanse of clouds below.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky:

Origin

From Latin expansum, from expandō.

From Latin expansum, from expandō.

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Forms

plural: expanses
Singularexpanse
Pluralexpanses

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
expanse — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto