Expanse

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=panse

CIDE DICTIONARY

Expanse, n. [From L. expansus, p. p. of expandere. See Expand.].

 That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.  Savage.  [1913 Webster]
"Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven."  [1913 Webster]
"The smooth expanse of crystal lakes."  [1913 Webster]

Expanse, v. t. 

 To expand.  [1913 Webster]
"That lies expansed unto the eyes of all."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Expanse, n.
1 a wide continuous area or extent of land, space, etc.
2 an amount of expansion.

Etymology

mod.L expansum neut. past part. (as EXPAND)

THESAURUS

Expanse

acreage, ampleness, amplitude, area, beam, bigness, body, boundlessness, breadth, broadness, bulk, caliber, compass, continuum, coverage, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance, distance across, domain, emptiness, empty space, enormity, enormousness, expansion, extension, extent, field, formidableness, fullness, galactic space, gauge, gigantism, girth, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, height, hugeness, immensity, infinite space, infinity, intensity, interstellar space, largeness, latitude, length, length and breadth, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, might, mightiness, muchness, nothingness, orbit, outer space, plenitude, power, prodigiousness, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, space, span, spatial extension, sphere, spread, strength, stretch, stupendousness, superficial extension, surface, sweep, territory, tract, tremendousness, vastness, void, volume, wideness, width

ROGET THESAURUS

Expanse

Space

N space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace, room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread, dimension, length, distance, size, volume, hypervolume, latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver, spare room, elbow room, house room, stowage, roomage, margin, opening, sphere, arena, open space, free space, void, waste, wildness, wilderness, moor, moorland, campagna, abyss, unlimited space, infinity, world, ubiquity, length and breadth of the land, proportions, acreage, acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles, square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing), ares, arpents, spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample, widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed, boundless, shoreless, trackless, pathless, extended, extensively, wherever, everywhere, far and near, far and wide, right and left, all over, all the world over, throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land, under the sun, in every quarter, in all quarters, in all lands, here there and everywhere, from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end, on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass, to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.