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Wide in extent or scope.

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

Plain; evident.

General rather than specific.

(writing) Unsubtle; obvious.

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

(of an accent) Strongly regional.

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

(UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.

(film, television) A kind of floodlight.

(slang, archaic) A playing card.

(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

(US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated) A woman or girl.