wide open space
Unobstructed sweeping terrain
A wide open space is a large, unobstructed expanse of land with few buildings, trees, or other features blocking the view—prairies, deserts, plains.
The phrase often carries romantic or liberating connotations, suggesting freedom from crowding and constraint: She moved out West, craving wide open spaces.
Country and western music frequently invokes the image.
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
- endless horizonView without visible boundary
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- plainBasic and unremarkable
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
room to breathe · rolling hills · amber waves · wind · solitude · lone wolf · desert · no man's land · sky · frontier · tundra · expanse · liberation · steppe · outback · pasture · boundless · emptiness
wide open spacecramped quarters
Insufficiently spacious living area
confined space · enclosed space · tight space · prison cell · cage
wide open spaceconcrete jungle
Dense cityscape, few parks
sardine can · standing room only · built-up area · metropolis · downtown
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