expanses

Meaning of expanses

plural noun
  1. a wide continuous area of something.
    the green expanse of the forest

mid 17th century: from modern Latin expansum ‘something expanded’, neuter past participle of expandere (see expand).

Information about expanses

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of expanses is: expanse.
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Hyphenation of expanses

ex-panses

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • expanses is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

expanses synonyms

Meaning the extent or measurement of a surface or piece of land:

area

Meaning a continuous area or expanse of land or water:

stretch

Meaning a long, typically curved stretch of road, river, or land:

sweep

Meaning an area of land, typically a large one:

tract

Meaning a broad strip or area of something:

swathe

Meaning a large area of flat land with few trees:

plain

Meaning an area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences:

field

Meaning a strip of leather or other material worn, typically round the waist, to support or hold in clothes or to carry weapons:

belt

Meaning an administrative district of a city or country:

region

Meaning a vast expanse or quantity of something:

sea

Meaning a thick or soft expanse or layer of something:

carpet

Meaning a large piece of woollen or similar material used as a covering on a bed or elsewhere for warmth:

blanket

Meaning an extensive unbroken surface area of something:

sheet

Meaning the distance or measurement from side to side of something; width:

breadth

Meaning the area of variation between upper and lower limits on a particular scale:

range

Meaning an expanse or amount of something:

spread

Meaning an act of reaching out with one's arm:

reach

Meaning a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied:

space

Meaning the area covered by something:

extent

Meaning very great extent or size; immensity:

vastness

expanses antonyms

Meaning an area that is surrounded by a barrier:

enclosure

Words that rhyme with expanses

Hanses, cadranses, cleanses, contradanses, contredanses, hanses, kanses, kranses, manses, orleanses, perforanses, ranses, schanses, sextanses, transes, xeranses, Albanenses, Albigenses, Ramnenses, Waldenses, albigenses, amanuenses, atrienses, avenses, censes, chinenses, condenses, defenses, dickenses, dispenses, elevenses, expenses, flenses, frankincenses, impatienses, incenses, lenses, licenses, menses, miliarenses, missenses, nonsenses, offenses, prepenses, pretenses, protenses, quatertenses, recenses, recompenses, recondenses

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