sprawling
English
Verb
sprawling
- present participle of sprawl
Adjective
sprawling (comparative more sprawling, superlative most sprawling)
- That sprawls
- Expansive; extensive
- a sprawling cityscape
- 1972, Topping, Seymour, “Departure”, in Journey Between Two Chinas, Harper & Row, →ISBN, OCLC 906398512, page 101:
- We looked over Hoihow, a dirty sprawling city of 250,000 people, many of them living in old two-story buildings made of mud and white plaster, across the narrow Hainan Strait to the Liuchow Peninsula on the mainland.
- 2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54:
- It's close to the sprawling University of Birmingham campus and the ever-growing Queen Elizabeth Hospital site, which also includes a large medical school.
Translations
expansive, extensive
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Noun
sprawling (plural sprawlings)
- The act of one who sprawls.
- 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
- Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.
- 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)