the measurement taken at right angles to the length
the lesser of two dimensions or the least of three dimensions
largeness of extent or scope
a measured and cut piece of material
wide1 + -th as in breadth. In his Dictionary (1755), Samuel Johnson labels width ‘a low word’. His objection was etymological: width was a word formed artificially in the 17th cent. on the model of the much earlier breadth and length. Even by Johnson's time, however, it was in reputable use, replacing the more natural form wideness