widebody
or wide-bod·y
a jet airliner having a fuselage wide enough to allow passenger seating to be divided by two aisles running from front to back.
Origin of widebody
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How to use widebody in a sentence
It had to be a big wide-body airplane with only two engines, The Big Twin.
The Exemplary Plane at the Heart of the MH370 Mystery | Clive Irving | March 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the arrows thus shot by both fell at the same instant of time upon the wide body of Muka, hard as adamant.
Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1 | Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaHe covered with his wide body, the slight pretty Babette, who however, soon peeped out with her beaming dark eyes.
The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. | Hans Christian AndersenThere will be a sudden paralysis of the nerves and muscles of the whole world-wide body of commercial and industrial life.
Gossamer | George A. BirminghamEbo latithorax (p. 38) is a small Philodromus, with a wide body and exaggerated second legs.
The Common Spiders of the United States | James Henry Emerton
The wide body of water had swept up to within a few yards of the trees under which Mrs. Norton lay fast asleep.
The Jungle Girl | Gordon Casserly
British Dictionary definitions for wide-body
(of an aircraft) having a wide fuselage, esp wide enough to contain three rows of seats abreast
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