FAR AND WIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does far and wide mean? 

• FAR AND WIDE (adverb)
  The adverb FAR AND WIDE has 1 sense:

1. over great areas or distances; everywhere

  Familiarity information: FAR AND WIDE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAR AND WIDE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Over great areas or distances; everywhere

Synonyms:

far and near; far and wide

Context example:

searched for the child far and near

 Context examples 

Moreover, Mars will allow you to travel far and wide and have fun doing so, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For the thick of the fleet had been to the westward of us, and the boats, scattered far and wide, had headed in mad flight for the nearest refuge.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So messengers were sent far and wide, to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They scattered far and wide over the country, and it was not till a week later that the last of the survivors gathered together in a lower valley and counted their losses.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His call seemed to be answered from far and wide by the howling of wolves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She had left Thornfield Hall in the night; every research after her course had been vain: the country had been scoured far and wide; no vestige of information could be gathered respecting her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Beauty Smith was known far and wide as the weakest of weak-kneed and snivelling cowards.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You see me now when my name has become known far and wide, and when I am generally recognised both by the public and by the official force as being a final court of appeal in doubtful cases.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing, thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispirited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You might travel far and wide and may hear good news about your rising influence in your career.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)