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span

/spæn/noun, verb1 syllable

Span means: two items of the same kind.

Synonyms for span17

noun, as in two items of the same kind

couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad

noun, as in a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

noun, as in the act of sitting or standing astride

straddle

verb, as in to cover or extend over an area or time period

What does span mean?7

noun

1

two items of the same kind

2

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

3

the act of sitting or standing astride

4

the complete duration of something“the job was finished in the span of an hour”

5

the distance or interval between two points

6

a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)

verb

1

to cover or extend over an area or time period“Rivers traverse the valley floor”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with span?25

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Span in a sentence

  • Thanks to these discoveries, man's life span has become twice as long as before.unknown
  • Great, today the floor will be spick and span.rul
  • Seventy or eighty years is the normal span of a man's life.CN
  • The belt has a width of about one span.zogwarg
  • The present perfect expresses the long span from past to present.fcbond
  • My son's short attention span is causing him problems at school.darinmex
  • The life span of a butterfly is short.CK
  • His attention span is that of a goldfish.sacredceltic

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of span

as a noun

plural
spans

as a verb

past tense
spanned
present participle
spanning
third-person singular
spans
past participle
spanned