expanse

«expanse» in Mova's school dictionary: a very wide, open area of land, sea, sky or something else — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an expanse, expanses)

meaning for a pupil

1) An expanse is a very wide, open area of land, sea, sky or something else. tree →

2) It suggests something large and empty or smooth stretching out far. tree →

sense in the lessons

Descriptive writing about landscapes: deserts, oceans, snow, sky. Geography lessons. Phrases: a vast expanse, an expanse of water, wide expanse.

examples

• A vast expanse of sand stretched in front of us. tree →
• We looked out over the blue expanse of the ocean. tree →
• The plane flew over a white expanse of snow. tree →
• An expanse of green fields surrounded the farm. tree →
• Stars filled the dark expanse of the sky. tree →
• The prairie was a huge, flat expanse. tree →
• Tartarus was a vast and gloomy expanse, as far below Hades as the earth is distant from the skies. tree →

note

Countable. Not the same as expense (cost) — a common confusion. Related to expand.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «expanse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.