🇬🇧 Wingspan meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Wingspan is how far it is from one wingtip to the other wingtip when the wings are stretched out. Imagine a bird holding its wings out as wide as possible—if you measured from the tip of one wing all the way across to the tip of the other wing, that measurement is its wingspan. Insects, bats, and even airplanes all have a wingspan too.

The tiny bee has a teeny wingspan, but somehow it still thinks it owns the entire planet.

The moth had a small wingspan, but it still believed it could block the entire lamp with its body of darkness.

The giant hawk’s wingspan made our whole backyard feel like a small landing pad.

The airplane’s wingspan was so huge it looked like it could hug the whole airport at once.

The goose showed off its wingspan and the other geese clapped their wings like it was a fashion show.

On the sand, Anna found a tired gull. She opened the gull's wings and guessed the wingspan with her arms. She looped a string, marked the wingspan, and wrote the number in her notebook. She compared the gull's wingspan to the kite's wingspan by holding them side by side. The gull flew; Anna smiled at the wingspan she had measured.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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