width
n. C / Un. the distance from one side of something to the other. It describes how wide an object or a space is.
n. the measurement or extent of something from side to side; the physical dimension of breadth.
The width of the swimming pool is twenty meters.
The referee checked the width of the goalposts to ensure they met the official league regulations.
In competitive swimming, the width of each lane is strictly defined to prevent turbulence from one athlete's stroke from unfairly impeding the progress of another in the adjacent lane.
PIE word *dwóh₁ From wide + -th (abstract nominal suffix), possibly by analogy with Old Norse vídd (“width”), though this is unlikely, as the word is not attested before the end of the 16th century and was historically unknown in Scots and the traditional dialect of Northern England, where one would expect Old Norse influence to be the strongest (these varieties traditionally employed wideness instead). Replaced Middle English wide, wyde (“width”).
Uncountable when referring to the general property of being wide; countable when referring to a specific measurement or a single trip across a space.
The table is two meters of width.The table is two meters wide.Learners often use the noun 'width' with 'of' when the adjective 'wide' is the standard way to state a measurement.