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Definition of Breadth

Breadth

  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

Breadth Quotations

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Breadth Translations

breadth in French is travers
breadth in German is Breite
breadth in Latin is amplitudo

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