Usually means: Commonly encountered across large area.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word widespread:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. widespread: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. widespread: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. widespread: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. widespread: Collins English Dictionary
  5. widespread: Vocabulary.com
  6. Widespread, widespread: Wordnik
  7. widespread: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. widespread: Wiktionary
  9. widespread: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. widespread: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. widespread: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. widespread: Dictionary.com
  13. widespread: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Widespread: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. widespread: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. widespread: Rhymezone
  17. Widespread: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. widespread: Free Dictionary
  19. widespread: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. widespread: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. widespread: Legal dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See widespreading as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
adjective:  (uncommon) Spread far apart.

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