expanse
See also: expansé
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin expansum, from expandō.
Noun
expanse (plural expanses)
- A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky, or land.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
- That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
- An amount of spread or stretch.
Related terms
Translations
A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky
An amount of spread or stretch
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Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) expānse