单词 | wide-armed |
释义 | > as lemmaswide-armed wide-armed adj. having a wide arm or arms; having the arms opened wide; (figurative) welcoming. ΚΠ 1822 J. Wilson Lights & Shadows Sc. Life 305 Beneath the shadow of that wide-armed sycamore. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 27 With view of wide-armed heaven. 1914 M. D. Sullivan Goddess of Dawn xi. 146 She called Arthur for a few moments to a seat beside the wide-armed wicker chair in which she lounged. 2014 New Yorker 19 May 92/2 ‘In the Light of what We Know’ is what Salman Rushdie once called an ‘everything novel.’ It is wide-armed, hospitable, disputatious, worldly, cerebral. < as lemmas |
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