wide open spaces
Unobstructed rural terrain
Wide open spaces are expansive, unobstructed landscapes—prairies, deserts, plains—where you can see for miles without buildings or crowds.
The phrase evokes freedom and rural life, often contrasted with urban confinement: She left the city for the wide open spaces of Montana.
Sometimes used wistfully or ironically by those who crave or fear such emptiness.
- vastExtremely great in size
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- plainsBroad, level grasslands
- amber wavesWindblown golden grain fields
sea of grass · desert · sky · freedom · room to breathe · wilderness · expanse · endless · rolling · meadow · frontier · solitude · untamed · grasslands · panorama · ranch · windswept · barren
- TexasAlamo, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
- Rocky Mountain WestWyoming, Montana, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, cowboys
- Great PlainsGreat Plains, high plains, High Plains, grassland, grasslands
- backcountrybackcountry, backwoods, backpacking, bushwhacking, wilderness
wide open spacescramped quarters
Insufficiently spacious living area
confined spaces · tight spaces · enclosed spaces · close quarters · boxed in
wide open spacesurban sprawl
Uncontrolled peripheral development
inner city · downtown · Manhattan · concrete jungle · teeming metropolis
wide open spacesconcrete jungle
Dense cityscape, few parks
urban landscape · industrial zone · cityscape · built environment · skyscrapers
wide, open, space, widely, wider, widest, widen, widened, widening