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Definition of Expanse

1. Noun. A wide scope. "The sweep of the plains"

2. Noun. The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary. "It was about 500 square feet in area"

3. Noun. A wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky.

Definition of Expanse

1. n. That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.

2. v. t. To expand.

Definition of Expanse

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

2. Noun. An amount of spread or stretch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expanse

1. a wide, continuous area [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expanse

expanded metal expanded universe expanded universes expander expanders expandible expanding expanding upon expandingly expandingness

expando expandor expandors expandos expands expanse (current term) expanses expansibilities expansibility expansible

expansile expansin expansine expansins expansion expansion adapter expansion bit expansion bolt expansion cleat

Literary usage of Expanse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature and the Bible: A Course of Lectures Delivered in New York, in by Sir John William Dawson (1875)
"This expanse, we are expressly told, " God called heaven," thus including ... The statements in Genesis respecting the expanse suppose a previous condition ..."

2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"Л vast expanse lay before us, which we were to measure with our feet, through morasses in which we were not without danger of being swallowed up."—Ibid. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"in 1867 to supply the city from Lake Sebago, whose beautiful expanse (14 miles long by 11 wide) was the favorite haunt of Nathaniel Hawthorne's boyhood. ..."

4. The Concept of Knowledge by Panayot Butchvarov (1970)
"The point of speaking of an entity that is at least a perceptual expanse but possibly a part of the surface of a body is that a perceptual expanse and a ..."

5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"... where Virgil lived, and Giulio Romano painted and designed ; or northward, toward the glorious Garda- see, whose blue expanse melts gradually into the ..."

6. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography by John Fiske, James Grant Wilson (1898)
"... after a journey across a wide expanse of unsettled country and through trackless forests. He suffered for food, and during two weeks subsisted on ..."

7. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"for its shadowy expanse is tenanted by countless rustic monuments and altars. Most of them looked abandoned both by gods and men; ..."

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