breadth
要点幅
意味
- 幅,広さ(breadth)
- (心などの)広さ,大きさ;寛容
例文
He escaped being run over by a hair's breadth.
彼は間一髪でひかれるところを危うく逃れた。
He is looked up to for his breadth of mind.
彼は心が広いために尊敬されている。
The village lay in a valley about half a mile in breadth.
その村は、幅およそ0.5マイルの谷間にあった。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English bredthe, alteration (due to nouns ending in -th: length, strength, wrength, etc.) of brede ("breadth"; see bread). Equivalent to broad + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots bredth (“breadth”), Saterland Frisian Bratte (“breadth”), West Frisian breedte (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Low German Breddte, Breddt (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Danish bredde (“breadth”), Norwegian Bokmål bredde (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”).