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
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
What does span mean?7
noun
two items of the same kind
a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
the act of sitting or standing astride
the complete duration of something“the job was finished in the span of an hour”
the distance or interval between two points
a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
verb
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
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