The meaning of SPREAD is to open or expand over a larger area. How to use spread in a sentence.

SPREAD definition: 1. to cover or reach a wider or increasing area, or to make something do this: 2. to affect more…. Learn more.

Definition of spread verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

To become separated; be forced farther apart: The land masses spread until there was an ocean between them. n.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English spread1 /spred/ S2 W2 verb (past tense and past participle spread) 1 affect more people/places [intransitive, transitive] if something …

to stretch out, esp. over a flat surface: [~ + object] Spread the blanket under the tree. [no object] The blanket will spread far enough for both of us to sit on it.

If you spread something somewhere, you open it out or arrange it over a place or surface, so that all of it can be seen or used easily. She spread a towel on the sand and lay on it.