widths
- 1Plural of width.
The tailor measured the widths of both sleeves before making any cuts.
Highway lanes come in standard widths to keep traffic flowing safely.
Note
A regular plural that only some uses of width can take. The quality of being wide usually stays singular. The plural belongs to things that can be counted: separate measurements being compared or listed (lanes of different widths), and pieces of material cut across their narrower side, as when a dressmaker joins three widths of fabric to make a full skirt.
The curtains needed four widths of linen sewn side by side.
She joined two widths of velvet to make the cloak.
widths is a form of width
width, noun: The measurement of how far something extends from one side to the other. Full entry
- Forms
- widthwidths plural
- Spelling
- width → widths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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