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-wide

suff. Extending or effective throughout a specified area or region: statewide.
[From wide.]

wide

(waɪd)

adj. wid•er, wid•est,
adv. adj. 1. of great extent from side to side; broad: a wide street. 2. having a specified extent from side to side: three feet wide. 3. vast; spacious: the wide plains. 4. of great range or scope: a person of wide experience. 5. expanded; distended: to stare with wide eyes. 6. apart or remote from a specified objective: wide of the truth. 7. too far to one side: a shot wide of the mark. 8. Baseball. outside (def. 14). 9. full or roomy, as clothing: wide, flowing robes. 10. (of a speech sound) lax (def. 7). adv. 11. to the utmost, or fully: to be wide awake. 12. away from a point or mark; astray: The shot went wide. 13. over an extensive area. 14. to a great extent from side to side: The river runs wide here. [before 900; Middle English; Old English wīd, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon wīd, Old High German wīt, Old Norse vīthr] wide′ness, n.

-wide

a combining form of wide, forming from nouns adjectives with the sense “extending or applying throughout a given space,” as specified by the noun: communitywide; countrywide; worldwide.
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