widespread

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   widely circulated or diffused

   a widespread doctrine

2. 2
   adj

   Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

   widespread belief

3. 3
   adj

   Spread far apart.

   Women with knee-length silk stockings, sitting with widespread legs on sunwashed green benches

4. 4
   adj

   distributed over a considerable extent

Etymology

From wide + spread.