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breadth noun [ brɛdθ ]

• the distance or measurement from side to side of something; width.
• "the boat measured 27 feet in breadth"
Similar: width, broadness, wideness, thickness, span, spread, diameter, beam,
Origin: early 16th century: from obsolete brede in the same (related to broad) + -th2, on the pattern of length .

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