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# widely — English to French

How English *widely* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [widely in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/widely/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: widely (34 697). By style: everyday 28 · literary 1 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 1 657 · legal and administrative 1 003 · UN documents 32 005.

## largement

Used about 18 781 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 932 · legal and administrative ≈ 501 · UN documents ≈ 17 336). Forms: large, largement.

- His name was becoming **widely** known.
  Son nom devenait **largement** connu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#807216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/807216) [\#1085865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1085865))

- The Mondétour labyrinth was disembowelled and **widely** opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists at the present moment.
  Le dédale Mondétour était éventré et **largement** ouvert dès 1847, et probablement n'est plus à l'heure qu'il est.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23563)

- During that period its success has been **widely** acknowledged.
  Au cours de cette période de dix ans, son succès a été **largement** reconnu.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 843651)

- MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES THAT ARE **WIDELY** SPREAD
  GESTION DES ESPÈCES EXOTIQUES ENVAHISSANTES **LARGEMENT** RÉPANDUES
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3398822)

- These rivers and the underground aquifers are **widely** exploited.
  Ces fleuves et les aquifères souterrains sont **largement** exploités.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25080199)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- The 150 poems in the Book of Psalms represent a range of human voices and emotions, and are among the Bible’s most **widely** read verses.
  Les 150 poèmes du Livre des Psaumes représentent une gamme de voix et d’émotions humaines et comptent parmi les versets les plus lus de la Bible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cangarejo and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12071211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12071211) [\#12074541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12074541))

- He smiled **widely** at me.
  Il m'a fait un grand sourire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12938888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12938888) [\#10669432](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10669432))

- They are now **widely** used for communication, calculation, and other activities.
  Ils sont désormais répandus et sont utilisés dans des domaines tels la communication et le calcul.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Nucleos · checked, community translation · [\#42843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42843) [\#748318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/748318))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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