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Adjective
- prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out
- distributed or spread over a considerable extent
- has ties with many widely dispersed friends
- eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe
Noun
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- decorative cover for a bed
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a banquet for the graduating seniors
- they put out quite a spread
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- gap between income and outgo
- the spread between lending and borrowing costs
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
Verb
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread cheese on a piece of bread
- cover by spreading something over
- spread the bread with cheese
- strew or distribute over an area
- He spread fertilizer over the lawn
- scatter cards across the table
- become widely known and passed on
- the story went around in the office
- cause to become widely known
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- spread across or over
- A big oil spot spread across the water
- become distributed or widespread
- Optimism spread among the population
- distribute or disperse widely
- The invaders spread their language all over the country