extent

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The degree or level to which something happens or is true.

   We were shocked by the extent of the damage after the flood.

2. 2
   noun

   The size or area that something covers.

   From the hill you can see the full extent of the desert.

Common collocations

• considerable extent Adjective + noun

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

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