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Definition of Spacious

1. Adjective. Very large in expanse or scope. "Spacious skies"

2. Adjective. (of buildings and rooms) having ample space. "A spacious ballroom"

Definition of Spacious

1. a. Extending far and wide; vast in extent.

Definition of Spacious

1. Adjective. Having much space; roomy ¹

2. Adjective. Large in expanse ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spacious

1. vast or ample in extent [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spacious

spacewear spacewoman spacewomen spaceworthiness spaceworthy spacey spacial spacially spacier spaciest

spaciness spacinesses spacing spacings spaciotemporal spacious (current term) spaciously spaciousness spaciousnesses spack

spacker spackers spackle spackled spackler spacklers spackles spackling spackling compound spacks

Literary usage of Spacious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
""The bay of Boston is spacious enough to contain in a manner the navy of England. The masts of ships here, and at proper seasons of the year, make a kind of ..."

2. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"... we came to anchor in the spacious bay of Santa Barbara, after a voyage of one hundred and fifty days from Boston. CHAPTER IX. ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There is a spacious cavity surrounding the gut and containing also bloodvessels, and to some extent the generative organs, and the nervous cord. ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... fifty-two porticoes, five granaries, eight aqueducts or reservoirs of water, four spacious halls for the meetings of the senate or courts of justice, ..."

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