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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈwɪdθ/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/wɪdθ, wɪtθ/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(width, witth or, often, with)

width /wɪdθ, wɪtθ/USA pronunciation n.

the size or amount of something measured from side to side;
breadth: [countable]a width of sixty feet.[uncountable]sixty feet in width.
something, as a piece of cloth, of a particular width:[countable]She cut a width of silk and began to sew it.

width (width, witth or, often, with),USA pronunciation n.

extent from side to side;
breadth;
wideness.
a piece of the full wideness, as of cloth.

wide + -th¹, modeled on breadth, etc. 1620–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

width /wɪdθ/ n

the linear extent or measurement of something from side to side, usually being the shortest dimension or (for something fixed) the shortest horizontal dimension
the state or fact of being wide
a piece or section of something at its full extent from side to side: a width of cloth
the distance across a rectangular swimming bath, as opposed to its length

Etymology: 17th Century: from wide + -th¹, analogous to breadth

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Synonyms: breadth, wideness, girth, distance across, thickness, more...

Collocations: the [column, road, lane, print, page, pixel, image] width, the width of the [column], a width of [ten feet], more...

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Hyphenated Adjectives: shoulder-width
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