extent

Definition

A range of values or locations.

Etymology

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

Example Sentences

• "I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word."
• "The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words."
• "But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent"

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