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Definition

the distance between two sides; or the range of variety — especially a broad range of knowledge

The introductory courses are meant to add to breadth rather than depth of understanding.

breadth = the range of variety

a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject
Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.
Genesis 13:17 (NIV)
He was tall and thin, and wore his coats padded, which gave a fictitious breadth and depth to his shoulders and chest.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
That night a bellman went through the length and breadth of Mbanta proclaiming that the adherents of the new faith were thenceforth excluded from the life and privileges of the clan.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

breadth = the distance between two sides

He went from one end of the village to the other and walked all its breadth.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

breadth = the distance between two sides

That night the Mother of the Spirits walked the length and breadth of the clan, weeping for her murdered son.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

breadth = the distance between two sides

The cnams creaked, but we sat so still that the thing did not sway a hair's breadth.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Where the canyon pinched to a breadth of less than ten feet, Max ventured a look behind him.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
Why, you used to reproach me with breadth!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
But I can measure distances to a hair's-breadth-always could."
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome
The sun was no more than a finger's breadth above the horizon when a runner arrived at the tent.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
She bent to gather up a mud-stained breadth, and followed him up the steps into the hall.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
The Bible -- Job
Their boards barely a hand's breadth above the housetops, the patterns of shingles passed underneath hypnotically.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
I only note his beauty: the smooth brown of his skin, the breadth of his shoulders, the muscles of his arms, so very different from my own.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
The width and breadth of this question nearly shook her.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
If the punt did pass under the bridge without sticking, it would do so by no more than a claw's breadth.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

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