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narrow
Meaning of narrow
adjective
- of small width in relation to length.
he made his way down the narrow road
- limited in extent, amount, or scope.
they ate a narrow range of foods
- denoting or relating to a contest that is won or lost by only a very small margin.
the home team just hung on for a narrow victory
- denoting a vowel pronounced with the root of the tongue drawn back so as to narrow the pharynx.
- become or make less wide.
the road narrowed and crossed an old bridge
the Victoria Embankment was built to narrow the river
- become or make more limited in extent or scope.
the gap between the sexes is narrowing
the trade surplus narrowed to £70 m in January
the committee narrowed the selection to three designers
- a narrow channel connecting two larger areas of water.
there was a car ferry across the narrows of Loch Long
Old English nearu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch naar ‘dismal, unpleasant’ and German Narbe ‘scar’. Early senses in English included ‘constricted’ and ‘mean’.
Information about narrow
- The plural form of narrow is: narrows.
Hyphenation of narrow
nar-row
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- narrow is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables