spacious

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These mansions--spacious, finely built, each standing in its own park-like grounds--were built for the most part by wealthy Bristol merchants during the two last centuries--men of wealth, who needed to reside within an easy drive of the city, and who were content to amass great fortunes without also desiring to become land-owners.

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  1. adjective Generous or large in area or extent; roomy.
  2. adjective Vast in range or scope: a spacious view.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: spacious, ample, capacious, commodious, roomy
    These adjectives mean having or affording a generous amount of space: a spacious apartment; an ample kitchen; a capacious purse; a commodious harbor; roomy pockets.

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  • It was lofty and spacious, and already filled with figures of men and women, whom the dim light of a few lamps, placed upon the fragments of the fallen architecture, just enabled me to discern and distinguish from the masses of marble and broken columns which strewed the interior, which, when they afforded a secure footing, were covered with the assembled worshippers. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
  • Stair's chamber was spacious--the largest and best in the gaol, but the roof had not been plastered, and he could see the light through the slates, though some attempt had been made at scantling, and even in one corner a quantity of plasterers' laths had been piled. —  Patsy
  • This was very spacious, and, of course, quite dry, and contained all they wished to put in. —  Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
  • The rooms were very lofty and spacious, and if I recollect rightly each floor consisted of only one room. —  Recollections of Old Liverpool
  • The interior of the mansion was spacious, and even elegant; it was decorated with natural curiosities,--Indian and Mexican antiquities, articles of virtů_, and a large number of portraits and busts of historical characters. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
 

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  1. Formerly also spatious; from French spacieux = Spanish espacioso = Portuguese espaçoso = Italian spazioso, from Latin spatiosus, roomy, ample. from spatium, room, space: see space.
 

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