expanse
noun/ɪkˈspæns/
/ɪkˈspæns/
- expanse (of something) a wide and open area of something, especially land or water
- a wide/vast expanse of blue sky
- She stood looking out over the flat expanse of fields.
Extra Examples- a bleak expanse of concrete
- a vast expanse of sand
- the white expanses of the frozen north
- He gazed out over the huge expanses of open prairie.
- She admired the deck's shining expanse of polished wood.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- broad
- endless
- great
- …
- expanse of
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from modern Latin expansum ‘something expanded’, neuter past participle of expandere ‘to spread out’, from ex- ‘out’ + pandere ‘to spread’.
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